Suzanne Collins Quotes - Page 5

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true...

You could live a thousand life times but you will never deserve that boy.

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

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

He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.

How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking up." Something in my expression stops him. "Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

the evil thing is inside, not out.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

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.

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

You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.

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

"Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-