Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 13

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• Finnick:" Good to see you, Peeta." Peeta:" You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you." It could be a joke, if the tone wasn't so cold. Everything it conveys is wrong. The open distrust of Finnick, the implication that Peeta has his eye on Annie, that Annie could desert Finnick, that I do not even exist. Finnick:"Oh Peeta," says Finnick lightly. "Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

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  Sorry, Nice, Heart

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• Better not to give in to it.

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  Giving, Mockingjay

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.

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  Horse, Memories, Real

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.158, Scholastic Inc.

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• You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.

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  Thinking, Together, Done

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.693, Scholastic Inc.

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• Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

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  Worry, Cost, Trouble

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.273, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

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  Taken, Would Be, Way

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.269, Scholastic Inc.

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• If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

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  Temporary Insanity, People, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

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  Next, Plans, Happens

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

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• I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.

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  Lying, Eye, Arrows

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• I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.

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  Jobs, Eye, Kissing

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• And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us.

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  Want, Fiancee, Ifs

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• Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.' Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Needs

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• turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine

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  Vines, Form, Turns

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #3: Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.

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  Slugs, Hunger, Charm

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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• Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

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  Catching Fire, Gale, Unthinkable

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.638, Scholastic Inc.

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• "I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip." "Hey, Gale," I say. "Thought you'd be gone by now," he says. My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble." "Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under.

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  Sorry, Kissing, Simple

  "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

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  Humorous, Kissing, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

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• Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says.

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  Mirrors, Years, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.316, Scholastic Inc.

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• The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

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  Positive, Death, Strong

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.748, Scholastic Inc.

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• We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving. And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.

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  Stars, Kissing, Grace

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.212, Scholastic Inc.

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• I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

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  President Snow, Voice, Overcoming

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

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  World, Rue, All Things

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

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  Humorous, Shut Up, Pears

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• Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

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  Girl, President Snow, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

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  People, Bags, Arena

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

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