I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.
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VICTORIA AVEYARD If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but n...
BOBBY KNIGHT I would love to try to win another game, ... Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try a...
GREG MADDUX To survive is to win.
ZHANG YIMOU Before the game I said I would do anything I could to win the game for him.
JOEY MARTIN Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
SUZANNE COLLINS I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) Preparation will relieve you from pressures. Stay prepared and you will not need to worry about pres...
RICHARD OKORIE The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is importa...
BOBBY KNIGHT It's easy for me to sit here and say, 'Hey, this would have been my first win, Jimmie, why did you t...
BRIAN VICKERS I just want to win. I don't really try to do too much. But when it comes down to time to win, then w...
LAZARUS SIMS I didn't think that 9 under would win. I thought it would take around 15 to win.
BRAD BRYANT You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...
So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER I try to win every tournament.
KARRIE WEBB I woke up knowing we were going to win this for her. I wanted to win this for Coach G. I get tired o...
LINDSEY HARDING I'm not going to come out and say how many I think we can win, but I expect us to win, and I want to...
ROMEO CRENNEL It doesn't bother me that they said that, ... Of course they are going to try and fire you up before...
CHRIS LEAK Казвам се Катнис Евърдийн. Защо не съм мъртва? Би трябв�...
Сюзан Колинс Оказва се, че въпросът, който ме разяжда от толкова вре�...
Сюзан Колинс I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a T...
EVAN HUNTER I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a T...
EVAN HUNTER I was really committed to come here and try to win, unless I win a WGC event or a Major,
SERGIO GARCIA Why should I apologize for being a HACKER? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?
HARSH MOHAN He said he was going to give me an opportunity to win a job there. But he also said that if I win it...
WILLIE BLOOMQUIST I think this is a win-win situation. Just for the educational component alone ? that would have been...
CAROL HILSON She was really one of the girls I would have said would win a medal.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER I would rather win it than lose the championship but they deserve it this year. Definitely, he deser...
KIMI RAIKKONEN Our seniors really want to win district, four years ago we tied for it, but I think they want to win...
GREG TAYLOR I would love to win it again. Boston was a good friend of mine. We were competitors but we were frie...
GENE ANGELILLO I'm sure they think it's weird that I play with the boys, and I think they try to avoid me, but I ju...
ANNIE HOUGHTON You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
JACK CAMPBELL I called her up and asked, 'How would you like to win $10,000?' and she started screaming.
CAMERON JONES I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.
LARRY FITZGERALD I am not here to prepare for the French Open. I am here to try to win the tournament,
TOMMY ROBREDO A little bit! To try your best is the first thing, and I did do that. There was a little bit of bad ...
ALLAN DAVIS The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. An...
CARLY PATTERSON I think it would be anyone's goal to try to win them both. I've been working hard all year. I don't ...
MALLORY DIETRICH I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
WIN BUTLER Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an ide...
WIN NG If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything...
WIN BORDEN The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing:...
WIN BUTLER Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it&...
WIN BUTLER It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone...
WIN BORDEN There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filte...
WIN BUTLER The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was ...
WIN BUTLER Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musici...
WIN BUTLER I'm not a good hipster - if I let my moustache grow for weeks, it just looks like I have dirt on...
WIN BUTLER I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 1...
WIN BUTLER I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to...
WIN BUTLER It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
WIN BUTLER We picked it up, kept it alive and played a better game after the second half.
WIN BATES There are a lot of good kids out there. There are a lot of good teenagers. If you're good to them, t...
WIN BUTLER We are the largest biomedical enterprise in the state of Florida.
WIN PHILLIPS We both picked the Bad Boys. I think Terry said they would win in five games and I said six.
DREW SHARP I just try to find ways to help my team win.
MIGUEL CABRERA I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Exce...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Our goal is to win races, be fast, and try to win that owners championship,
TONY RAINES I was just disappointed in the amount of intensity that our team brought to the field. But, a win is...
CHAD MCKELVEY We went there to support her, so that she would feel that her family was there supporting her win or...
LOURDES ELIZALDE That's a match I should win, but if I'd attacked more it would have been a straight-sets win to me,
ALICIA MOLIK It was nice to see a girl win a title. I would like to follow her, but being the first (to qualify f...
BROOKE SAUER I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.
KAWHI LEONARD Първо зървам русата плитка, която се спуска по гърба й. ...
Сюзан Колинс Приближавам се към камерата, обзета от ярост:
— През...
Сюзан Колинс I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ...
SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
SUZANNE COLLINS I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Eyes so black they seem all pupils.
SUZANNE COLLINS No more kisses for you, until you have eaten !
SUZANNE COLLINS Затова после, когато той прошепва: „Ти ме обичаш. Вярно...
Сюзан Колинс Ще им кажа как оцелявам. Ще им кажа, че в лошите сутрини ...
Сюзан Колинс I would have traded all that for a win in this game.
ASHLEY GRONEWOLLER Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You ...
NINA JACOBSON He said, 'If I ever win the lottery, I would see the world. I want to go to France and Greece.' He w...
DONALD SPARROW The bottom line is we've got to win and keep on going. I think we've still got a shot. Before the ga...
CHARLIE MANUEL It would be a big thing for us to win the first game. It would be a big win, to set ourselves up for...
EMILY ZAPLATOSCH I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.
TIGER WOODS She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so...
JOHN GREEN I've always said that I want to win as many trophies as possible in my career, but not at any pr...
ROBIN VAN PERSIE Abby is a world-class diver and working with her helps me know what I need to strive for. I would lo...
HANNAH KRIMM I'm always going to try to win with a positive mindset.
BROCK OSWEILER To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who wou...
ANTHONY NEWLEY I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go f...
ROONE ARLEDGE I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that wi...
BELA KAROLYI I don't see a win-win coming from this, but maybe we can create a fair solution that would be an acc...
BOB GROETKEN A lady came up to me afterwards and said this is better than our last grand final win in 1971. And I...
RUSSELL CROWE Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I surely want to win this game, but I have a lot of respect for those seniors at that school and the...
LARRY THOMPSON It's what we play for, ... I came here to win. I expect us to win.
CHARLIE MANUEL She seems best at a mile. I think I can get her confidence up more if I go in there. It's an allowan...
BEAU GREELY I'm not going to get too greedy. I won the one I wanted to win. If I don't win any more races, but w...
DAN WHELDON He's a huge, huge competitor, and today he really did try to win that race. He went out a little too...
MATT HENRY I felt with God behind him, he would have a good chance to win. I knew all along that he was fast en...
IVAN VENIKOV I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this ...
DARREN CLARKE My gut feeling is we should do this . . . and I like to win. I think (if softball were readmitted) i...
ANITA DEFRANTZ I lost the opening singles here against Romania in five sets, but I will try to use that experience ...
MARIO ANCIC Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
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It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
SUZANNE COLLINS Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
SUZANNE COLLINS Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas...
SUZANNE COLLINS Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in co...
SUZANNE COLLINS If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces...
SUZANNE COLLINS I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
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...
SUZANNE COLLINS I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
SUZANNE COLLINS We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our...
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...
SUZANNE COLLINS I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
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.
SUZANNE COLLINS You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
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,...
SUZANNE COLLINS I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss. I remember about the bread.
SUZANNE COLLINS Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone st...
SUZANNE COLLINS Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Fire beats roses again.
SUZANNE COLLINS In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
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."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
SUZANNE COLLINS Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...
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 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 Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
SUZANNE COLLINS Is that why you hate me?" I ask.
"Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.
SUZANNE COLLINS I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No,...
SUZANNE COLLINS Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.
SUZANNE COLLINS In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom o...
SUZANNE COLLINS You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with...
SUZANNE COLLINS To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that ga...
SUZANNE COLLINS They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You wi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.
SUZANNE COLLINS The question is, what are you going to do?"
It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
SUZANNE COLLINS As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have ...
SUZANNE COLLINS In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his i...
SUZANNE COLLINS What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How ...
SUZANNE COLLINS We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, ...
SUZANNE COLLINS He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radia...
SUZANNE COLLINS We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.
SUZANNE COLLINS He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospit...
SUZANNE COLLINS Because...because...she came here with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger G...
SUZANNE COLLINS We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.
“I don't know. I...
SUZANNE COLLINS You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
SUZANNE COLLINS Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
SUZANNE COLLINS Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.
SUZANNE COLLINS I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki...
SUZANNE COLLINS Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.
SUZANNE COLLINS She crept up on me.
SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
SUZANNE COLLINS How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a...
SUZANNE COLLINS I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme...
SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
SUZANNE COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates.
And what...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch...
SUZANNE COLLINS Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
SUZANNE COLLINS The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...
SUZANNE COLLINS hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
SUZANNE COLLINS So what should we do with our last few days?”
“I just want to spend every possible minute o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
SUZANNE COLLINS Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt...
SUZANNE COLLINS But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
SUZANNE COLLINS Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
SUZANNE COLLINS It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s...
SUZANNE COLLINS But some secrets are too delicious not to share.
SUZANNE COLLINS If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m...
SUZANNE COLLINS