Top 100 Quotes About Suzanne Collins
#1. You won't hear a character's friend say this in a romantic comedy. Taylor Swift won't sing this, Eminem won't rap it, and Suzanne Collins won't write it, but it's true: just because you're "in love" with someone doesn't mean you should seriously consider marrying them.
Gary L. Thomas
#2. Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, mistakes just waiting to be made again. Instead she gives us a song. And children. And though "they play on a graveyard" (Mockingjay), the important thing is that they are free to play.
Leah Wilson
#3. Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft.
Nina Jacobson
#4. I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
Victoria Aveyard
#5. I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.
Jennifer Lawrence
#6. From a place of protection to a sinister trap. I know at some point we'll be forced to reenter its depths, either to hunt or be hunted, but for right now I'm planning to stick
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#7. How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?
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#8. I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Living next to her. Promising to marry her. The
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#9. He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. "You're going to make a great mother, you know," he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.
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#10. I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.
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#11. It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.
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#12. But at this point, with only minor victories for the rebels, a cease-fire could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse.
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#13. When I have survived the worst, opening my eyes underwater, sniffing water into my sinuses and snorting it out,
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#14. I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.
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#17. Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!
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#19. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna's hands, desirable by Peeta's confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
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#20. You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.
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#22. I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.
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#24. Makes me nervous on about five different levels. "Oh, no. He frosted under heavy guard. He's still under lock and key. But I've talked to him," Haymitch says. "Face-to-face?
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#25. Yeah, about that," says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. "Don't try something like that again." "Or what?" I ask. "Or ... or ... " He can't think of anything good. "Just give me a minute.
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#27. Besides, if he wants kids, Gale won't have any trouble finding a wife. He's good-looking, he's strong enough to handle the
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#28. I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.
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#29. Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
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#33. Ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.
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#34. Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
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#36. I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.
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#37. there's only one future, if I want to keep those I love alive and stay alive myself. I'll have to marry Peeta.
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#38. I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.
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#39. Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.
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#40. I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
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#41. Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.
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#43. I can only form one clear thought.
This is no place for a girl on fire.
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#44. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
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#45. Let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. A cold breeze has sprung
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#48. Want a sugar cube? [ ... ] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I ... well, if we see something sweet we better grab it quick. [ ... ] You're absolutely terrifying me in that get-up. What happened to the pretty little-girl dresses?
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#49. Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.
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#50. You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.
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#51. 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.
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#52. One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.
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#53. Peeta. How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn't
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#54. Updates from Coin about the nature of the bombs. Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to its status, we're in the
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#56. 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.
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#57. Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?
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#59. Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
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#60. Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
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#61. I don't think it's going to work out. Winning ... won't help in any case. Because ... she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark
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#63. Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, here is the place where I love you.
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#64. I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.
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#66. But even if all of us meet terrible ends, something happened on that stage tonight that can't be undone. We victors staged our own uprising, and maybe, just maybe, the Capitol won't be able to contain this one.
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#67. He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television."
"Are you and Beetee going?" I ask.
"As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.
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#69. At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
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#70. Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.
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#71. He tells the hiustory of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once North America.
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#72. If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?
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#73. It's not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.
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#75. To show them that I'm more than just a piece in their Games?" I say.
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#76. Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.
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#77. In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
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#78. Tomorrow's a hunting day," I say.
"I won't be much of a help with that," Peeta says. "I've never hunted before."
"I'll kill and you cook," I say. "And you can always gather."
"I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there," says Peeta.
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#79. If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
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#82. Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
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#83. 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.
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#84. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way ... to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
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#86. The smell of blood ... it was on his breath.
What does he do? I think. Drink it? I imagine him sipping it from a teacup. Dipping a cookie into the stuff and pulling it out dripping red.
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#87. So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. But I have a feeling his ego isn't going to go for that suggestion.
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#88. I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are
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#90. I know any move I would make toward Darius, any act of recognition, would only result in punishment for him. So we just stare into each other's eyes. Darius, now a mute slave; me, now headed to death. What would we say, anyway? That we're sorry for the other's lot? That we ache for the other's pain?
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#93. They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.
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#94. Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.
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#95. We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?
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#96. We would all like you to know what a ... privilege it has been to make you look your best. Then
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#97. Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway.
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#98. In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.
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#99. Maybe they are militaristic, overly programmed, and somewhat lacking in a sense of humor.
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#100. As we ride the elevator Gale finally says "You're still angry."
"And you're still not sorry," I reply.
"I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?" he asks.
"No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion," I tell him.
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