That was a tough one,


Bill Collins

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It was intense. This is a tough one.
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He was one tough son of a gun.
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It was a tough call, but a sensible one.
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We knew it was going to be a tough one.
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That could be a tough one.
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It's not a bill that protects. It was not intended to protect.
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I have the highest regard for (Collins).
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It was a tough way for the game to end. It was a fabulous game that was fought tough by both teams.
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It was a very inhumane bill.
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It was just one of those days where we had a tough time finishing.
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That was a tough game for us.
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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