Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 14

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• The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.

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  Song, Catching On, Flames

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.981, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out

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  Rip, Knocked Up, Care

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• If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

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  Trying, Losing, Gregor The Overlander

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

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  Beauty, Eye, Catching On

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• Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.

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  Years, Lasts, Messages

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• I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.

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  Kissing, Sight, Arrows

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.842, Scholastic Inc.

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• And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.

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  Stupid, Wrestling, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.230, Scholastic Inc.

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• What about you?" "Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.

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  Cake, Wish, Clue

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.183, Scholastic

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• Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

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  Thinking, Today, Claims

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.292, Scholastic Inc.

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• Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

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  Humorous, Catching Fire, Target

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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• It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

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  Catching On, Catching Fire, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

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• You could do a lot worse.

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  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.45, Scholastic Inc.

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• I say we try it,' says Peeta. 'Katniss is right.' Finnick looks at Johanna and raises his eyebrows. He will not go forward without her. 'All right,' she says finally. 'It's better than hunting them down in the jungle, anyway. And I doubt they'll figure out our plan, since we can barely understand it ourselves.

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  Hunting, Eyebrows, Katniss

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• My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.

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  Eye, Thinking, Brain

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.122, Scholastic Inc.

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• Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

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  Lying, Forever, Gazing

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• It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred. . . . Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena

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  Girl, Boys, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.459, Scholastic Inc.

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• That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.

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  Running, Glasses, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving.

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  Doors, Calling, Dinner

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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• I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

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  Orange, Hallucinations, Shallow

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.262, Scholastic Inc.

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• I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

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  Sleep, Iodine, Water

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is what I tell myself to explain the conflicting emotions that arise when I think of Peeta. The gratitude that he game an edge by professing his love for me in the interview. The anger at his superiority on the roof. The dread that we may come face-to-face at any moment in this arena.

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  Mother, Gratitude, Winning

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• Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.

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  Mean, Sleep, Who Cares

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.153, Scholastic Inc.

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• Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

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  Eye, Meat, Facts

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• I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.

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  Remember, Wanted, Knows

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

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• Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

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  School, Coal

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