Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 26

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• Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it is. But as I journey into the night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs.

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  Night, Journey, Wings

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• You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

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  Catching Fire, Hunger, Ends

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.

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  Real, Problem, Made

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.270, Scholastic Inc.

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• We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who i can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.

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  Skills, Lunch, Naps

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• We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the cooks are somewhat lacking in imagination. But a woman who came up with a palatable wild dog and rhubarb stew is bound to feel as if her hands are tied here.

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  Dog, Thinking, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

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  Safe, Yeah, Shots

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.220, Scholastic Inc.

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• I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

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  Father, Plants Growing, Voice

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

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• So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouragingly. “I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning…won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because…because…she came here with me.

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  Home, Winning, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.125, Scholastic Inc.

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• Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

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  Force Fields, Nuts, Mags

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.851, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

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  Giving Up, Desperate Measures, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.75, Scholastic Inc.

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• I start to crack at four hundred to one.

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  Cracks, Four, Hundred

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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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• My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

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  Crush, Mother, Father

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.

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  Hands, Names, Body

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.227, Scholastic Inc.

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• You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?" "Like I couldn't take you.

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  Tonight, Not Afraid

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.239, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

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  Games, Voice, Gentleman

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn't an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally.

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  Hate, Drama, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1264, Scholastic Inc.

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• Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

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  Lying, Agreement, Missing

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• Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.

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  Katniss, Trying, Alive

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.28, Scholastic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.

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  Swim, Twelve, Bigs

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