Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 6

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• The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.” -Katniss Everdeen

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  Katniss, Hunger Games Book, Capitol In Hunger Games

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• My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger, still worn but not so beaten-down. Prim’s face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named. My mother was very beautiful once, too. Or so they tell me.

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  Beautiful, Mother, Sleep

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.

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  People, Alive, Enough

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.

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  Kissing, Opposites, Legs

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.352, Scholastic Inc.

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• The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

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  Mother, Fighting, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.653, Scholastic Inc.

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• A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

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  Revenge, Mirrors, Long

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1385, Scholastic Inc.

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• You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark

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  Winter, Night, Fire

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• I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss

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  Kissing, Bed, Pearls

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.

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  Who I Am, Ideas, Life Is Like

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.407, Scholastic Inc.

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• if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

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  Insane, Dies, Ifs

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.235, Scholastic UK

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• We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?

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  People, Silence, Mind

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.183, Scholastic

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• Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

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  Use, Littles

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.687, Scholastic UK

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• the evil thing is inside, not out.

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  Evil, Evil Things

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.301, Scholastic

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• Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.

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  Hate, Believe, Doe

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1226, Scholastic Inc.

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• You want a piece of advice?" said Ripred. "Don't bother. I know what you'll say. The whole thing's stupid," said Gregor. "Quite the contrary. I was going to say that life is short. There are only a few good things in it, really. Don't pretend that one isn't happening." said Ripred.

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  Stupid, Life Is Short, Advice

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.713, Scholastic Inc.

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• Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.

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  Long, Tears, Hem

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1270, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

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  People, Like You, Like Me

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• I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

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  War, Writing, Adolescence

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• When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

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  Fighting, Years, Daggers

  "I’m More Like Plutarch than Katniss: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence". Interview with Lev Grossman, entertainment.time.com. November 21, 2013.

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• One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

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  Book, Memorable, Reader

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• "If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?" "Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive." "Mockingjays do."

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  Real, Wings, People

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

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• No one knows what to do with you, girlie.

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  Knows

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.327, Scholastic Inc.

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• there's plenty of blame to go around.

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  Blame, Plenty

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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• They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

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  Pride, Cinna

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.103, Scholastic Inc.

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• "I'm not their slave," the man mutters.
  "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato ... and he killed Thresh ... and he killed Clove ... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games."

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  Tired, Winning, Men

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.

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