It must have been quite a sight as that big pirate ship came loose and ran aground during the hurricane. I'm glad I wasn't there.


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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
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