Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 29

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• I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him." -Katniss Everdeen

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  Goodbye, Years, Two

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• How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

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  Offering, Wind, Rue

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.56, Scholastic Inc.

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• He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

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  Choices, Peaceful, Solitude

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'll ether be dead or with us. It's...it's more than we could hope for! Well, that's a sunny view of our situation.

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  Views, Katniss, The End Of The Day

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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 stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.” “The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say. Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.

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  Kissing, Get Better, Able

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.197, Scholastic Inc.

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• I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s no going back.

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  Ease, Time Passes, Knows

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.269, Scholastic UK

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• Want a sugar cube?- Finnick Odair,

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  Want, Sugar, Cubes

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• Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run

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  Running, Years, Wake Up

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games (Movie tie-in)”, p.10, Scholastic UK

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• My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who, of all the people in this rotting world, has turned Peeta and me into pieces in his Games. I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. And he has betrayed me.

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  Hands, Games, People

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.389, Scholastic Inc.

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• I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.

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  Crazy, Heart, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.

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  Wish, Would Be, Want

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.389, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

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  Pain, Clueless, Years

  "Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

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  Rising, Sun, Persist

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

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• Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

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  Girl, Girl Talk

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.

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• I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.

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  Kissing, Sight, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.447, Scholastic UK

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• Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

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  Long, Add, Annie

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

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  Games, Long, Focus

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• Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

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  Sometimes, Clean, Hissing

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

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• I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.

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  Love, Hurt, Romance

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.368, Scholastic Inc.

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• Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

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  Movie, Odds, President Snow

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

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• I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

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  Inspirational, Boys, Hunger For Love

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• I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair.

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  Thinking, Punishment, Despair

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.64, Scholastic

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• Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.

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  Color, Land, Force Fields

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.363, Scholastic Inc.

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