Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 9

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• You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

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  Home, Thinking, Leaving

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.343, Scholastic Inc.

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• Aim higher in case you fall short.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Catching On

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.

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• Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

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  Rain, Tired, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

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  Hurt, Catching On, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.

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  Pain, Worst

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.92, Scholastic

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• You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

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  Real, Katniss, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.302, Scholastic Inc.

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• We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

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  Alternatives, Scared, Jokes

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games (Movie tie-in)”, p.11, Scholastic UK

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• We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

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  Katniss, Revolution, Mockingjay

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.981, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.

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  Stupid, Knocked Up, Goats

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.686, Scholastic Inc.

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• I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

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  President Snow, Names, Bad Times

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like... But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen

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  Children, Sacrifice, Differences

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1455, Scholastic Inc.

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• I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

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  Lonely, Comforting, Firsts

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.204, Scholastic Inc.

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• Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

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  Humor, Kissing, Hunger For Love

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.

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• So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.

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  Mother, Song, Teacher

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

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  Strong, Catching Fire, Shame

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

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• We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

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  Running, Woods, Capitol In Hunger Games

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

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• I'll tell them how I survive it. 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. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
  But there are much worse games to play.

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  Morning, Taken, Years

  "Mockingjay". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2010.

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• Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.

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  Love You, Defense, Action

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

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• I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

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  Katniss, Catching On, Catching Fire

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

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• Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.

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  Wall, Gun, Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.

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• Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay.

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  Knives, Games, White

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• Highly unlikely but not impossible.

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  Impossible, Unlikely

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.42, Scholastic

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• It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

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  Mind, Normal, Calm

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

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  Pain, Hands, Normalcy

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

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