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I wish I didn't think about what my body looks like. It can be done - it's just a long process.


Petra Collins

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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