Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 11

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• Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

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  Country, Want, Rebellion

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.270, Scholastic

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• Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

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  Katniss, Twelve, Gale Hawthorne

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.303, Scholastic

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• The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

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  Imperfection, Damage, Fatigue

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

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  Keys, Doors, Gale

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• For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

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  Grandma, Reality, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.

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  Watches, Television, Shots

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.171, Scholastic

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• The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

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  Broken Heart, Pain, Leaving

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• You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.

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  Fall, Taken, Thinking

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• It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, "I think you'd be pretty in any color." The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you.

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  Thinking, Color, Tears

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.

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  Mother, Real, Medicine

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.321, Scholastic Inc.

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• You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.

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  Feelings, Looks, Alive

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

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• How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” “The more you can distract yourself the better, ” he says. “First thing tomorrow, we’ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.

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  Morning, Katniss, Relief

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• I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

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  President Snow, Monsters, Despise

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.296, Scholastic

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• Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

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  Perfect One, Cameras, Looks

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.141, Scholastic Inc.

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• Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them." "That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him.

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  Katniss, Needs, Annie

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.224, Scholastic Inc.

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• "Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How you acted." "Not all of it," I say, tightly holding onto my flowers. "Then how much? No, forget that. I guess the real question is what's going to be left when we get home?" he says. "I don't know. The closer we get to District Twelve, the more confused I get," I say. He waits, for further explanation, but none's forthcoming. "Well, let me know when you work it out," he says, and the pain in his voice is palpable.

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  Pain, Confused, Real

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn't be fair on my part.

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  Missing, Want, Fairs

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.35, Scholastic Inc.

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• Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

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  Love, Real, Wanted

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• Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

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  Thinking, Doors, Bye

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.149, Scholastic

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• ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

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  Thinking, Names, Waking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.

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  Years, Nuts, Allies

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Petta bitterly, "if it weren't for the baby." There. He's done it again.

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  Baby, Thinking, Done

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• Dawn comes before sleep does.

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  Sleep, Dawn, Doe

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

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  Process, Happenings

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.58, Scholastic

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• Beauty that arose out of pain.

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  Pain, Pressured

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.504, Scholastic UK

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