Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 23

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• Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

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  Children, Sacrifice, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.

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  Dream, Giving, Brain

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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• The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.

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  Dark, Space, Light

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

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  Eye, Mind, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

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  Katniss, Hunger Games Book, Hissing

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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• It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.

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  Mean, Your Side, People

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The blade lodges in the pack. Both straps on my shoulders now, I make for the trees. Somehow I knew the girl will not pursue me. That she'll be drawn back into the Cornucopia before all the good stuff is gone. A grin crosses my face. Thanks for the knife, I think.

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  Girl, Running, Thinking

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• I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

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  Thinking, Tonight, Boots

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• ‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

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  Uprising

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.280, Scholastic UK

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• I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.

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  Girl, Lasting Impressions, Made

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.299, Scholastic Inc.

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• because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.

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  Way, I Have Learned, Hard

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.355, Scholastic Inc.

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• They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.

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  Moon, Asking, Knows

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• She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail.

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  Girl, Ducks, Tails

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television." "Are you and Beetee going?" I ask. "As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.

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  Thinking, Cameras, Television

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1305, Scholastic Inc.

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• The question is, what are you going to do?" It turns out the question that's been eating away at me has only ever had one possible answer. But it took Peeta's ploy for me to recognize it. What am I going to do? I take a deep breath. My arms rise slightly - as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me - then come to rest at my sides. "I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

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  Black And White, Wings, Answers

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

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  Hate, Games, Cities

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.674, Scholastic Inc.

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• The star-crossed lovers

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  Stars, Lovers, Star Crossed Lovers

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.73, Scholastic

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• Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?

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  Mean, Katniss, Survival

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.

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  Girl, Jealous, School

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been spared for another year. But at least two families will pull their shutters, lock their doors, and try to figure out how they will survive the painful weeks to come.

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  Children, Doors, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• I notice her blouse has pulled out of her skirt in the back again and force myself to stay calm. "Tuck your tail in, little duck," I say, smoothing the blouse back in place. Prim giggles and give me a small "Quack." "Quack yourself," I say with a light laugh. The kind only Prim can draw out of me.

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  Light, Ducks, Giving

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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• One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

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  Odds, Favors, Slips

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

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• One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

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  Mother, Home, Said

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.

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  Wall, Air, People

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

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• I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.

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  Children, Team, Survivor

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.268, Scholastic Inc.

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