Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 26

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• Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.

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  Real, Thinking, Games

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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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• 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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• I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

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  Flower, Use, Brushes

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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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• So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality.” “They saw her shoot,” says Peeta with a smile. “Actually, I saw her shoot, for real, for the first time. I'm about to put in a formal request myself.” “You're that good?” Haymitch asks me.

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  Real, Personality, Mentor

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.233, 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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• As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

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  Pain, Coal, Pearls

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.504, Scholastic UK

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• This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

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  Opposites, Bird, Safe

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.

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  Preparation, Instruction, Destination

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

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  Wonder, Breathe, Choke

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1003, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

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  Hands, Comforting, Dying

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.310, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

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  Secret, Share, Delicious

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.171, Scholastic Inc.

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• You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

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  Want, What You Want, Acquire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.152, Scholastic Inc.

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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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