Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 28

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• I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better. The gift...it is perfect. So when I rise up on my tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn't seem forced at all.

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  Kissing, Voice, Giving

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.59, Scholastic Inc.

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• I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.

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  Strong, Thinking, Way

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

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• They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.

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  Makeup, Layers, Faces

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

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• Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.

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  Names, Broken, Comfort

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.163, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.

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  Eye, Men, Tree

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.130, 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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• Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?" "Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.

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  Peeta, Haymitch

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.19, Scholastic Inc.

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• Please feel free to take this personally.

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  Please, Feels

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.674, Scholastic UK

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• Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

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  Girl, Fire, Catching On

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.

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  Stylist, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.

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  Doctors, My Thoughts, Therapy

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.

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  Rip, Thinking, Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that again.” “Or what?” I ask. “Or . . . or . . .” He can’t think of anything good. “Just give me a minute.

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  Thinking, Giving, Trying

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• The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.

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  Taken, Sky, Wings

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• I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

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  Morning, Fear, Taken

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.786, Scholastic UK

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• So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?” asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. “I don’t see that it makes that much difference. They’ll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Odds

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• I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking green light. Someone joins me, his body tense. Finnick, of course. Because only a victor would see what I see so immediately. The arena. Laced with pods controlled by Gamemakers. Finnick's fingers caress a steady red glow over a doorway. "Ladies and gentlemen..." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

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  Moving, Voice, Feet

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

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• Stay with me. Always.

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  Stay With Me, Mockingjay, Peeta

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• I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

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  Want, Today, Walks

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.9, Scholastic

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• In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

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  President Snow, Mind, Ordinary

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.18, 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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• I’m in pain. That’s the only way I get your attention

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  Pain, Attention, Way

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• I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

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  Book, Might, Humans

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.

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  Rue, Kill Me, Catch Me

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• And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

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  Hurt, Home, Kids

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

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