Catching Fire Katniss Quotes

#1. The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

Charles Koch

#2. But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me."
As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.

Suzanne Collins

#3. Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem, he says.

Suzanne Collins

#4. I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.

Suzanne Collins

#5. I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say.
"Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Suzanne Collins

#6. I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.

Jimmie Johnson

#7. I'm so tired, Katniss.

Suzanne Collins

#8. What impresses me... are .... humans they are so simple... species... soooo simple that you can predict each move if you want so much!?

Deyth Banger

#9. The odds are never in our favour.

Suzanne Collins

#10. Your stylist turned out to be prophetic in his wardrobe choice. Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem.

Suzanne Collins

#11. Stop talking now," I whispered because if he didn't I'd start crying.
"You asked."
"Okay, I did, but you need to stop talking now."
"Baby-"
I looked down at the cookie sheet. "And don't be nice anymore, I prefer you annoying.

Kristen Ashley

#12. All the little gods of irony must whoop and weep and roll on the floors of Olympus when they tune in on the night thoughts of a truly fatuous male.

John D. MacDonald

#13. Hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.

Suzanne Collins

#14. A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea.

Suzanne Collins

#15. I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

Thomas J. Grasso

#16. No one knows how hard one works.

Diana Vreeland

#17. Katniss, got that spile? Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.

Suzanne Collins

#18. I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

Richard Griffiths

#19. But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.

Suzanne Collins

#20. Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.

James Parton

#21. When I make a pretty good hook ( ... ) she gives me a toothless smile and an unintelligeble comment I think might be praise.

Suzanne Collins

#22. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.

Kahlil Gibran

#23. Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark.

Matt Taibbi

#24. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit.

Suzanne Collins

#25. Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

Suzanne Collins

#26. I don't like self-righteous people," I say.
"What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.

Suzanne Collins

#27. You can rationalize anything, but that is not total honesty, only your version of it based on your upbringing and experiences outside of everyone else's reality.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. 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.

Suzanne Collins