Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 6

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• A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me. "I'm with the Mockingjay," he says.

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  Party, Atrocities, Hammers

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.370, 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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• Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.

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  Tree, Midnight, Rope

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• Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

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  Thinking, Katniss, Mockingjay Book

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• I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

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  Mockingjay

  "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2011.

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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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• Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.

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  Country, Blow, Might

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

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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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• Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice.

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  Voice, Giving, Choices

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #4: Gregor and the Marks of Secret”, p.185, Scholastic Inc.

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• Courage only counts when you can count.

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  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.140, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.

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  Competition, Wells

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• District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

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  Safety, Hunger Games Book, District 12

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna. "Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.

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  Nice, Training, Crew

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.235, Scholastic Inc.

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• But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.

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  Aftermath, Killing, Persons

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.59, Scholastic

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• Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

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  Responsibility, People, Political

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.

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• I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet. But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be too easy to lose.

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  People, Arguing, Easy

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.402, Scholastic UK

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• How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

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  Knowing, Way, Chance

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.186, 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 trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me

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  Hands, Betrayed, Trusted

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.302, Scholastic

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• Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

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  Love, Strong, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.195, Scholastic Inc.

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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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