The Catching Fire Quotes

#1. Let the spark in you catch fire and burn into the air, so that it may light up the sky.

Saim .A. Cheeda

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

Thomas J. Grasso

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

Suzanne Collins

#4. Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

Suzanne Collins

#5. 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

#6. I want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you. -Peeta Mellark

Suzanne Collins

#7. For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Suzanne Collins

#9. Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!

Suzanne Collins

#10. The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer camps and catching lightning bugs and August skies aflame with stars. The way the desert smells and the long, wistful sigh of wind rushing down from the mountains as the sun dips beneath the horizon.

Rick Yancey

#11. He lay across the valley like a sparkling path, the setting sun catching fire on the way.

Anita Diamant

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

Suzanne Collins

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

Suzanne Collins

#14. 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

#15. California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.

Ian Hecox

#16. It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

Yann Martel

#17. The soul is but senses catching fire,
Marvellous music of the body's lyre, -
The angel senses are the silver strings
Stirred by the breath of some unknown desire.

Richard Le Gallienne

#18. I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment.

Suzanne Collins

#19. I'm so tired, Katniss.

Suzanne Collins

#20. I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

Suzanne Collins

#21. 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?

Suzanne Collins

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both 'The Hunger Games' and 'Catching Fire' delivered: 'Mockingjay' is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne's Collins's world and books and characters as we can put out!

Elizabeth Banks

#26. Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.

Josh Hutcherson

#27. What do you think?" he asks.
"I hate them," I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. "All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?"
"I see them every night," he says.

Suzanne Collins

#28. What do you think about when you close your eyes?" she asked. Alex looked at her, her silky orange eyes catching light from the fire, her hair falling against her cheek, her lips soft and full. "You really want to know?" She nodded. "Yeah." "I think about you,

Lisa McMann

#29. The odds are never in our favour.

Suzanne Collins

#30. 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

#31. You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

Suzanne Collins

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

Suzanne Collins

#33. Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#34. After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

Jodelle Ferland

#35. When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.

Celeste Ng