Lady licking Prim's cheek. My father's laugh. Peeta's father with the cookies. The color of Finnick's eyes. What Cinna could do with a length of silk. Boggs reprogramming the Holo. Rue poised on her toes, arms slightly extended,like a bird about to take flight.
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Related Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licki... SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme... SUZANNE COLLINS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out. SUZANNE COLLINS All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL Rue,, la niña que, cuando le preguntas por lo que mas ama en el mundo, contesta que la musica, nada... 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 El Distrito 12, donde puedes morirte de hambre sin poner en peligro tu seguridad. SUZANNE COLLINS She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY -Volaste la comida en pedazos?-susurra. -Hasta el ultimo trocito. -Vas a ganar. -Lo h... SUZANNE COLLINS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER 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 Eu vou ser o Tordo. SUZANNE COLLINS Desearia poder encontrar una forma de...de demostrarle al Capitolio que no les pertenezco, que soy a... SUZANNE COLLINS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe... DAVID MIXNER Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sun... B. DEVINE Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous! FAKE CINNA She crept up on me. SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games. SUZANNE COLLINS Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON She gets very anxious and starts licking his face and rubbing her cheek on his cheek. BOB WRIGLEY I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me... Otherwis... MARYUM AHSAM In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Abril é o mês mais cruel, gera lilases da terra morta, mistura a memória e o desejo, mistura raí... JULIA GREGSON Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto JULIA GREGSON Water flows because it's willing. MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead. JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it. JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm. JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. MARGARET MITCHELL I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future SOTONYE ANGA How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place? SUZANNE COLLINS If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monum... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real. SUZANNE COLLINS Tiny, searing stabs. Wherever the droplets of mist touch my skin. "Run!" I scream at the others... SUZANNE COLLINS I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fa... JOHN KEATS What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL Arms clasped around them, the knees support my forehead and I don't know why so warm the eyes of the... MARIANA FULGER It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y... TESSA DARE I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes... PRINCE CHARLES Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still ... IAN SOMERHALDER They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite... MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a h... MARGARET MITCHELL Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky So many a midnig... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES
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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.... 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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. 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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... 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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