Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 21

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• Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.

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  Children, Names, People

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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• Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

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  Plant, Tricky

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.

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  Tables, Helping, Truth Is

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.59, Scholastic Inc.

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• The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

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  Skins, Bread, Heat

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.

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  Mother, Confused, Kissing

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• This is no place for a girl on fire.

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  Girl, Fire, Catching On

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.263, Scholastic Inc.

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• Thank you for you consideration

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  Consideration

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

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• I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

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  Wish, Would Be, Finnick

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.389, Scholastic Inc.

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• Where did they get those screams, Katniss?

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  Katniss, Scream

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.342, Scholastic Inc.

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• My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS

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  Taken, Home, Names

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• Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.

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  Depression, Light, Quiet

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.626, Scholastic UK

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• It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

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  Book, Designer, Artistry

  "'The Hunger Games' Author Suzanne Collins Praises Lionsgate's Adaptation" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 01, 2012.

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• And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s such a pleasure to see how they’ve embodied the characters and brought them to life.

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  Character, Boards, Actors

  "'The Hunger Games' Author Suzanne Collins Praises Lionsgate's Adaptation" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 01, 2012.

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• If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

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  Home, Waiting, Parent

  "Suzanne Collins's War Stories for Kids". Interview with Susan Dominus, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 2011.

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• The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

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  Home, Excellent, Novel

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• Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

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  Powerful, Faithful, Vision

  "Suzanne Collins Talks About the Hunger Games Movie" by Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. March 1, 2012.

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• To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.

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  Hate, Sick, Honest

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• One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one channel, there's a group of young people competing for I don't even know; and on the next, there's a group of young people fighting in an actual war. I was really tired, and the lines between these stories started to blur in a very unsettling way. That's the moment when Katniss's story came to me.

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  War, Lying, Tired

  "A Killer Story: An Interview with Suzanne Collins, Author of ‘The Hunger Games’ | Under Cover". Interview with Rick Margolis, www.slj.com. September 1, 2008.

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• All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

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  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred. You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters." said Vikus. Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters." answered Ripred.

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  Believe, Army, Years

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• I start to crack at four hundred to one.

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  Cracks, Four, Hundred

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• His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

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  Dad, Cavemen, Genius

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

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• In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.

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  Father, Doors, Coins

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.635, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

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  Cheating, Joy, Trying

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

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• I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.

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  Air, Apples, Arrows

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.292, Scholastic Inc.

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