“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.
Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?" says Caesar.
Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping."
Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.
She have another fellow?" asks Caesar.
I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta.
So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.
I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning...won’t help in my case," says Peeta.
Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.
Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“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.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Peeta, you said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?
Oh, let’s see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red plaid dress and your hair...it was in two braids instead of one. My father pointed you out when we were waiting to line up."
Your father? Why?"
He said, ‘See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner.'"
What? You’re making that up!"
No, true story. And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could’ve had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. "No, I won't let you." "Trust me," I whisper. He holds my gaze for a long moment then lets go. I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. "On the count of three?" Peeta leans down and kisses me once, very gently. "The count of three," he says. We stand, our backs pressed together, our empty hands locked tight. "Hold them out. I want everyone to see," he says. I spread out my fingers, and the dark berries glisten in the sun. I give Peeta's hand one last squeeze as a signal, as a good-bye, and we begin counting. "One." Maybe I'm wrong. "Two." Maybe they don't care if we both die. "Three!" It's too late to change my mind. I lift my hand to my mouth taking one last look at the world. The berries have just passed my lips when the trumpets begin to blare. The frantic voice of Claudius Templesmith shouts above them. "Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you - the tributes of District 12!”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Katniss, the girl who was on fire!”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“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.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
“Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me.
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Born place: in Hartford, Connecticut, The United States
Born date August 11, 1962
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“I always thought of you as the girl I would eventually become serious with. The only explanation I can really give you is that I wasn’t ready to settle yet. But I know I caused you a lot of pain and there’s no excuse for it. I was being a complete jackass.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Blood
“And if Travis was chocolate, then Gage was… donuts. Yes, sweet, flaky donuts. And the only thing better than donuts and chocolate was… well, donuts covered in chocolate.”
― Nicole Edwards, quote from Travis
“But you know, sometimes people smile when they're sad. And sometimes girls who look sad are really smiling”
― Jenn Bennett, quote from The Anatomical Shape of a Heart
“A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.”
― Martha Stout, quote from The Sociopath Next Door
“For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs a watchmaker, just as a world needs a world-maker—God. Yet both Wallace and Paley might have heeded the lesson from Voltaire's Candide (1759), in which Dr. Pangloss, a professor of "metaphysico-theology-cosmolonigology," through reason, logic, and analogy "proved" that this is the best of all possible worlds: '"Tis demonstrated that things cannot be otherwise; for, since everything is made for an end, everything is necessarily for the best end. Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches" (1985, p. 238). The absurdity of this argument was intended on the part of the author, for Voltaire firmly rejected the Panglossian paradigm that all is best in the best of all possible worlds. Nature is not perfectly designed, nor is this the best of all possible worlds. It is simply the world we have, quirky, contingent, and flawed as it may be.”
― Michael Shermer, quote from Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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