I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.
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Related It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely r... VAL MCDERMID Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was b... CASSANDRA CLARE Her mental side was so strong. And her family values were so strong. They had such a good plan and w... GARY GILCHRIST He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her,... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So... JOHN CIARDI They could almost be like a second family to her. They took her under their wing, treating her like ... ALICIA BICKLEY Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come al... JEFFREY KLUGER Her family said a number of chickens belonging to her neighbors had died suddenly before she fell il... ILHAM PATU Still... I would have hugged my mother if we were the kind of family who hugged. If touching her wer... JERRY STAHL You should smile, look her in the eyes, and give her a small complement when you ask her out. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features w... PHILIPPA GREGORY I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own co... LAURA INNES And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautif... NATSUO KIRINO She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc... RICK YANCEY To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who wou... ANTHONY NEWLEY The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven woul... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with... THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH But fate it a cunning hussy, and builds up her plans as imperceptibly as a bird builds her nest; and... ELIZABETH GASKELL No one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she became my definition. Her gaze softe... EMMA CLINE She held her sword like she was ready to use it on anyone who got close. Darquesse could see her own... DEREK LANDY One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things whi... VAL MCDERMID My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mo... CAMPBELL BROWN Love is not for only One Day, Every Day is Valentine Day and may be actual Valentine day is not a da... LOVE QUOTES FOR HER She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unsha... JANE AUSTEN She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. “How can you be so calm?” He g... ANGELA QUARLES The character dies in childhood but is given a chance to go back home and see her parents and siblin... KEN JOHNSON Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin,... LUCY LARCOM A woman who is not successful in her own marriage has no advice to give to her younger generations ESAN MAGAZINE It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima... SUZANNE COLLINS El Distrito 12, donde puedes morirte de hambre sin poner en peligro tu seguridad. SUZANNE COLLINS Birds of the same feathers flock together, and when they flock together they fly so high. CECIL THOUNAOJAM A look came into his dark eyes, a new expression she could'nt decipher. He stroked her lips with his... THEA HARRISON I panicked when I tried to follow her movements with my eyes, just to be blocked by a horde of ghost... MAGALY GUERRERO Coraline took a deep breath and stepped into the darkness, where strange voices whispered and distan... NEIL GAIMAN The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the youn... RANI MUKERJI When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I h... CAROLINE KNAPP It was fantastic. Everyone here who read it thought it was so fresh and lively and funny. You immedi... ASYA MUCHNICK She remembers rehearsals. Wrong notes turning to right ones, dissonance becoming harmony. She re... KATHRYN HOLMES I told her we're still fighting for her. And she shouldn't give up, because we're not. But I think t... BOB SCHINDLER Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of... HENRY WILLIAMSON The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learn... IAIN PEARS ; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ... JOYCE CAROL OATES She was small. Her shadow moved in the dance of chaos before her as the inferno blazed behind her an... HUBERT MARTIN The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself.... OSCAR WILDE A tribute to all woman who are the strength of life, the rock of her family, the gentle heartbeat to... JASMINA SIDEROVSKI Even a strong child, a powerful child, would be dependent on the adults around her. If her strength ... ANNE BISHOP She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was s... JOHN GREEN Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and se... NAOMI WOLF Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable... J.D. SALINGER There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philom... RACHEL JOYCE What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swolle... VERONICA ROTH WOMEN ON THEIR OWN RUN in Alice’s family. This dawns on her with the unkindness of a heart attack ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER They clung to her like leeches, draining her spirit & dragging her down a dark world AMANDA BROOKE Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar... CORMAC MCCARTHY She wore a loose-fitting purple velvet Pre-Raphaelite gown, and her abundant dark-brown hair flowed ... GARY INBINDER Her eyes are liquid and draining out of her. MARIANNE CURLEY Her sadness scares her, and it scares the heck out of him. It builds on itself. KRISTEN SWANSON His fantasies were nurturing, not predatory. If he could have Jess, he would feed her. Laughable, an... ALLEGRA GOODMAN If you think a woman is so good looking that she must already have a boyfriend' you're probably righ... NICK KINSELLA At thirteen, she was already five feet seven, a little hollowed-out by her growth spurt, her chest c... DIANA ABU-JABER Our vet checked her over, and she's actually now back with the flock and doing fine. The only thing ... MARK SHAW And she who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of Our inspiration and made her and her so... QURAN I want her to arrive at college fresh and with a lot of impressive results ahead of her. CLIFF ROBBINS Tell her, if you wiil, that sorrow / Need not come in vain; / Tell her that the lesson taught her / ... ADELAIDE PROCTER Tell her, if you wiil, that sorrow / Need not come in vain; / Tell her that the lesson taught her / ... ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meetin... LAINI TAYLOR Until recently, I believed all horses were alike. They’ve been giant, four-footed animals with ugl... RAE CARSON But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasi... ELLEN WILKINSON Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone. VIRGINIA WOOLF Her hand holding his for a dozen paces. His, resting on the small of her back for a moment. Touches ... VERONICA ROSSI My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her... ELIZABETH GILBERT For the poor wren
(The most diminutive of birds) will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, again... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love ... CHARLES DICKENS She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behin... KEN FOLLETT Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat i... BETH LITTLEFORD The little girl who was watching me kneels beside a motionless woman, screeching and trying to rouse... SUZANNE COLLINS She was the first member of her family to go to college, and her parents wanted her to stay in Balti... JOAN GRIFFITH If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are exp... AMY CARLSON She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let s... CHRISTINE FEEHAN He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefl... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH …always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comf... L.M. MONTGOMERY It was as big as a box kite and mounted on a pole, gesticulating wildly with moving arms, vanes, whe... PAUL FLEISCHMAN If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.... HODA KOTB Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting th... JANE AUSTEN Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me,... LEO TOLSTOY He rolled his eyes. " What Claire?"Claire snickered. " Corned-beef again?"Henry narrowed his eyes at... ANDRIA LARGE Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological c... LIANE MORIARTY I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an... DIANA GABALDON He tore off her pajamas. She wasn't out with a fresh face of makeup with her hair done or a short dr... ANONYMOUS1234 I once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from her paramour that he told her... CARMEN MARIA MACHADO Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho. 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 It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss. SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme... SUZANNE COLLINS I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out. SUZANNE COLLINS Eu vou ser o Tordo. SUZANNE COLLINS
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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 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 In high school for a couple years we did archery. SUZANNE COLLINS