Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 31

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• Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.

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  Lovely, Frost, Ifs

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.91, Scholastic Inc.

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• My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.

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  Long, Gold, Bags

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.

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• Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

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  Trying, Arms, Let Me Go

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.373, Scholastic Inc.

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• We could do it, you know.

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  Gale Hawthorne, Knows

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.

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  Camouflage, Faces, Painting

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.776, Scholastic Inc.

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• I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!

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  Volunteer, Tribute

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

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• Because...because...she came here with me.

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  Hunger For Love, Games, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.130, Scholastic Inc.

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• Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?

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  Games, Tribute, Courses

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.51, Scholastic Inc.

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• My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.

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  Names, Katniss, Should

  "Mockingjay". Book by Suzanne Collins, August 24, 2010.

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• but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.

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  Sleep, Safe, Slipping

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.159, Scholastic Inc.

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• My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

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  Names, Locks, Lips

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first." Of course I do. Gale.

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  Katniss, Firsts, Gale

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• They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

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  Brain, Form, Thrive

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out,' I reply. Cinna puts his arm around my shoulder and leads me into lunch. ' Don't worry, I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself.

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  Hurt, Morning, Lunch

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.205, Scholastic Inc.

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• I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.

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  Letting Go, Looks, Fingers

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.66, Scholastic Inc.

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• In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

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  Our World, Hair, Rainbow

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!

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  Government, Voice, Safety

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• By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.

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  Kissing, Doors, Way

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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• I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?

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  Mean, Doubt, Survival

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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• I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.

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  Arguing, Desperate, Courses

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.169, Scholastic Inc.

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• My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

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  Sleep, Dark, Peaceful

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

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• It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.

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  Boys, Hot, Fever

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.343, Scholastic Inc.

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• Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

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  Appreciate, Use, Littles

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.240, Scholastic Inc.

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