Suzanne Collins Quotes

They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

"I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention."

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.

"What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with both of us? You kissing the other?" He asks.
"No. It wasn't okay with either of you. But I wasn't asking your permission," I tell him.
Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. "Well, you're a piece of work, aren't you?"

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

"I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip."
"Hey, Gale," I say.
"Thought you'd be gone by now," He says.
My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble."
"Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under.

"Well, I don't have much competition here."
"You don't have much competition anywhere."