Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 24

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• But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

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  Feet, Ghost, Silent

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.381, Scholastic Inc.

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• The more you can distract yourself, the better.

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

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• If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

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  Feelings, Trying, Someone You Love

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.666, Scholastic UK

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• Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.

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  Stronger, Want, Hunger

  "Fictional character: Gale Hawthorne". "The Hunger Games", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

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  Nightmare, Because I Can, Without You

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.

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  Kissing, Worry, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

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• I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

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  Real, Being Real, Wanted

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.73, Scholastic Inc.

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• In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

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  Mother, Father, Sleep

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.392, Scholastic Inc.

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• All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.

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  Sweet, Memories, Forever

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

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  Doing Me, Favour, Hunger

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.235, Scholastic

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• Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

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  Ideas, Forgiving, Energy

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• She's Prim's size in diameter.

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  Size

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• Let the Hunger Games Begin!

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  Games, Hunger

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

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• Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

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  Alive, Faults, I'm Alive

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

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• Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.

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  Thinking, Long, Competition

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• I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

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  Thinking, Color, Posies

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• Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

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  Pay, Firsts, Hardest

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.288, Scholastic Inc.

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• The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?

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  Girl, Real, Hatred

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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• You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in.

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  Moving, Cake, Giants

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• When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch

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  Catching Fire, Enemy, Arena

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• I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

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  Together, Flailing, Muscles

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1183, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

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  Home, Mind, Pay

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

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• While you live, the revolution lives

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  Revolution

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.300, Scholastic

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• Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

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  People, Cost, Murder

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• But between the images, we are privy to the real-life action being played out on the set. Peeta's attempt to continue speaking. The camera knocked down to record the white tiled floor. The scuffle of boots. The impact of the blow that's inseparable from Peeta's cry of pain. And his blood as it splatters the tiles.

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  Pain, Real, Blow

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1159, Scholastic Inc.

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