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JOE AHERN God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and l...
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ANTHONY DANIELS We needed a wake-up call. Coach Marsh just gave us a great halftime speech, and that was all we need...
BRANDON WARREN He pushed us hard. He didn't expect us to do well, he told us to do well. He knew what we were capab...
DANA TWIGG Coach told us not to worry about our shots not falling. He wanted us to win this game on defense, an...
BRANDON JENKINS Coach Fowler told us just to take five seconds of silence to put everything in perspective. We just ...
ANGELA PULEO Coach just told us that we were the best basketball team to come through Woodinville, girls or boys....
AMANDA FLEISCHMAN Coach told us that we needed to get them in foul trouble so I just kept going at them strong.
KATIE DALY You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
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MEL THOMAS Coach gave us some goals to shoot for, and that's about what they wanted us to run.
JAKE MARTEL We came out lollygagging and they shot the ball well, and we weren't shooting well at all. Coach tol...
DEJUAN GOODWIN Coach told us before the game that he was going to be a different person. He told us he was going ba...
RAJON RONDO P.J. gave us everything we really needed. He pitched a good ball game.
HAL LANIER Coach (Jim) Mora told us he didn't know we are. He was right. It was not a representative effort of ...
PATRICK KERNEY He motivated us. He told us we were going to be good this year. He told us to forget the past, and t...
CHAZ ROOTS [Fayetteville coach Jim Schmidt's theory of recognizing paid off with a win. After the game Schmidt ...
MARK WARD Coach has told us about it.
DAKOTA DURBIN Jason turns to us around, and we're just like, what are we supposed to do? ... Miss Deborah said, 'I...
JENNIFER BYRD Brett had a strong day for us on the mound and at the plate. He really gave us a boost when we neede...
MIKE ALLISON Coach Pitino sat me and Delray down and told us, 'If you take one shot, we'll lose,' ... I don't kno...
BILLY DONOVAN Coach Pitino sat me and Delray down and told us, 'If you take one shot, we'll lose,' ... I don't kn...
BILLY DONOVAN Coach told us that he wasn't playing. He cleans up most of the shots around the basket, so we wanted...
LOUIS TUMBLIN It gave us a little breathing room, which we needed very much at the end of the game. It gave us abo...
JEFF LANGREHR Coach told us to keep our composure.
GREG SCHIEFEN Coach told us that we just needed to get a good night's sleep. That we had to keep the game and that...
MARTIN CLEVELAND He taught us all we need to know to be successful. We're a family and coach Dustin is the father tha...
JULIUS THOMAS It was really frustrating. Coach [Bronco] Mendenhall told us what they were going to do in the secon...
AARON WAGNER We were starting to get nervous, so I was delighted to score. It gave us the lift we needed,
JOE COLE That definitely gave us momentum. It put us up two points at a time when we really needed it.
ERIC BURNETT The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.
PEYTON MANNING For this series to work, we needed to find a partner that would give us the access we needed around ...
JAMES ASHURST Coach basically told us to play it one game at a time.
JARRETT SPARKS That isn't going to do it. Twenty-five minutes? Coach told us if we play 40 minutes, we can be the b...
MARCUS WILLIAMS We said that we needed to win this game. Our coach did well pumping us up, and good defense brought ...
AMANDA JOHNSON If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA Coach told us to go out and be aggressive and just attack the basket like we do every day in practic...
GARRETT TYLER Coach Dorsett kept us enthusiastic during that last timeout. He told us to keep our heads up and not...
CAMERON LONG We got it right back when we called a timeout. He (coach Terry Posey) just told us to take it slow, ...
COURTNEY FORTSON Tonight, it was rough for us at the start. Richards was killing us. We knew what to do (to stop her)...
DELLENA CRINER She basically tricked us, ... We kind of didn't know what was going on ... (but) she gave us the sho...
ALEX DESERT She was phenomenal. Beth felt like we needed a high performance tonight, and she gave it to us.
JOSH MEEKER At halftime, coach told us he was disappointed. That's not the way we play. It wasn't anything other...
ERIC LAKSONEN At halftime, coach told us to get it in the paint because we shot a lot of three-pointers in the fir...
DAMIR DZAFIC We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns...
CHIEF JOSEPH God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.
JOSHILYN JACKSON In the third quarter, we really picked it up because Coach told us to pick it up. Coach just said pl...
ERIC LAKSONEN We had a lot of talent that came together because Coach (Jack) Cosgrove gave us that opportunity. Th...
STEPHEN COOPER It's taken us some time to truly understand what is needed to do it.
DOUG PARKER We needed to do a better job physically in the paint and not just from a couple guys, the whole grou...
DAVID GIBB We wanted to serve well and we wanted to pass well. Our passing wasn't up to par, but our serving sa...
JENNIFER HECHT He told us this is your team, and that he was our coach. Then he said something about us beating Flo...
KYLE HIXSON Our younger kids stepped up for us and our seniors gave us the wins that we needed.
BRIAN MARTEL He gave us the game back, in a sense. He told us to go out there and enjoy it. Some players were wor...
KRISTINE LILLY She came in and played real physical and gave us a real boost. She was just what we needed.
SHAWN NELSON Coach said we needed to work on our inside game and stop shooting outside when our shots weren't fal...
AMANDA ZIMMERMAN Jason is not making any excuses. He just said, 'Coach, I don't know what happened...it just happened...
DOC SADLER He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisic...
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JOE CRAVENS We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
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EVAN BUSH It had a huge effect on the game. Coach was mad, and he wanted us to get better. But we couldn't do ...
AARON GREEN We gave everybody what they wanted to see. He gave it his all and I gave it my all. One of us had to...
LEBRON JAMES Coach had told us to be patient, that play would be there.
BLAKE AHEARN Erin shot the ball well, and Hannah gave us the cushion we needed.
DAVE BROGIOLI We saw what needed to be done and we did it. We all have it in us to help out, and I was glad to do ...
GARY MCDONALD He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he...
AARON PARKS He gave what America was looking for. He gave us what we wanted, but I think it's that, we got what ...
DEMETRIUS WILLIAMS It was a very disappointing loss. We didn't do what we needed to do down the stretch for us to win t...
TONY DICECCO It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hope...
GENE ALLEN Providence is a fundamentally sound team. Coach Jim Martin was here to scout us. He probably didn't ...
AL CARTER They gave us a lot of energy and effort. They didn't make a lot of mistakes defensively. That's what...
TUBBY SMITH He kept his composure. He got us practicing a day or two afterwards because he knew we needed it. He...
JAMIE WINBORN Oh, yeah. Our coach told us that it's very hard to come into a section title (game) undefeated, and ...
TARA JACOBSON It's unbelievable, I'm so excited. We were behind each other all the way. Coach Hodson talked us wha...
BRANDI KING Yeah it was different, but it was the formation the coach wanted us to be put in. He told me just to...
CLINT DEMPSEY We did what we needed to do to put ourselves in better position. This was an important week. We need...
BEV SMITH Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Coach [Downer] challenged us to pick it up in the second half. We needed to play well in the second ...
GARRETT WILLIAMSON I just loved the energy that Coach brought to practice every day and the way she never gave up on us...
CARA ENRIGHT I think his biggest attribute as a coach is that he knows what he is - a coach. He doesn't come at u...
JOHN FITZGERALD That's nonsense, and it's not fair to Coach and not fair to Jason. Jason never complained about anyt...
AL HARRINGTON Coach told us to keep our heads up and keep fighting. We did that, we came back and were fortunate t...
CURTIS WHITE We've been knowing we can do it. Our coach has been telling us we can do it. He's been preparing us ...
ERIC HARRIS God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them...
R.M. ARCEJAEGER (Coach Rod Fisher) told us that we were playing not to lose and that we were not playing to win. We ...
ERICA SIMPSON We gave him a pitcher. He gave us the sea.
SAIOM SHRIVER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD She gave us the spark we needed in the first quarter and helped us pick up our game a little bit.
COACH MARY RAMSEY We knew she was the go-to girl and coach told us where she was going to hit them. It was definitely ...
ALLYSON DOYLE Coach told us we're going to win this game, but we're going to have to do it with confidence. We rea...
BRYAN MULLINS Coach told us they were probably going to come out a little tentative and then get up in us, so we h...
JUSTIN WILLIAMS Coach is very intense and he wants us to do our best off the court and on the court. He expects so m...
KRYSTLE HORTON He is a true hero to us here. He enjoyed what he was doing, and we're sure he gave it his all.
CLAY COCKE We don't want to lose to anybody, but we didn't come out with the right intensity and coach gave us ...
JUSTIN ROULEAU Coach [C. Vivian Stringer] told us before it even started that it was going to come down to the last...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
SUZANNE COLLINS That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
SUZANNE COLLINS Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
SUZANNE COLLINS The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the pos...
SUZANNE COLLINS Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me...
SUZANNE COLLINS So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Aim higher in case you fall short.
SUZANNE COLLINS So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"
"I just want to spend every...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no l...
SUZANNE COLLINS The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
SUZANNE COLLINS So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
SUZANNE COLLINS My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
SUZANNE COLLINS You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
SUZANNE COLLINS Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
SUZANNE COLLINS Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for th...
SUZANNE COLLINS And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anywa...
SUZANNE COLLINS One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Alrea...
SUZANNE COLLINS My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter....
SUZANNE COLLINS And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness...
SUZANNE COLLINS I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
SUZANNE COLLINS I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain,...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss. I remember about the bread.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did fo...
SUZANNE COLLINS You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s...
SUZANNE COLLINS I had to do that. At least once.
SUZANNE COLLINS No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
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SUZANNE COLLINS All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he c...
SUZANNE COLLINS Stay with me.
Always.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pl...
SUZANNE COLLINS I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
SUZANNE COLLINS No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
SUZANNE COLLINS You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't p...
SUZANNE COLLINS Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distr...
SUZANNE COLLINS I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
SUZANNE COLLINS What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with bo...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
SUZANNE COLLINS There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to y...
SUZANNE COLLINS But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...
SUZANNE COLLINS At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
SUZANNE COLLINS She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
SUZANNE COLLINS I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
SUZANNE COLLINS They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
SUZANNE COLLINS I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
SUZANNE COLLINS I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
SUZANNE COLLINS Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
SUZANNE COLLINS There are much worse games to play.
SUZANNE COLLINS Some walks you have to take alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y...
SUZANNE COLLINS I must have loved you a lot.
SUZANNE COLLINS Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
SUZANNE COLLINS What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
SUZANNE COLLINS You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
SUZANNE COLLINS It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
SUZANNE COLLINS The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
SUZANNE COLLINS For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
SUZANNE COLLINS You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
SUZANNE COLLINS I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
SUZANNE COLLINS Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
SUZANNE COLLINS It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
SUZANNE COLLINS While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
SUZANNE COLLINS Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
SUZANNE COLLINS The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"
"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.
"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."
Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
SUZANNE COLLINS