Stephen Collins quote: "Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days."

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS

Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentl...
STEPHEN COLLINS

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.
STEPHEN COLLINS

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.
STEPHEN COLLINS

It wasn't pretty, that much was true. But it looked like an ending. Neat. Complete.
STEPHEN COLLINS

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to ...
STEPHEN COLLINS

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on hi...
STEPHEN COLLINS

Old dog Tray's ever faithful; Grief can not drive him away; He is gentle, he is kind-- I...
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER

Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away, Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber, De...
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
JACKIE COLLINS

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
KIM COLLINS

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
JUDY COLLINS

We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It'...
PETRA COLLINS

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much m...
JACKIE COLLINS

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get...
JACKIE COLLINS

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
JACKIE COLLINS

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is...
JACKIE COLLINS

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want ...
JACKIE COLLINS

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else wo...
JACKIE COLLINS

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k...
JACKIE COLLINS

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's reall...
JACKIE COLLINS

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time wit...
JACKIE COLLINS

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They...
JACKIE COLLINS

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then...
JACKIE COLLINS

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
JACKIE COLLINS

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about ...
JACKIE COLLINS

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne becau...
JACKIE COLLINS

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you...
JACKIE COLLINS

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know ...
JACKIE COLLINS

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to ...
JACKIE COLLINS

If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'...
GAIL COLLINS

I prefer black music in general.
PHIL COLLINS

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but ...
LILY COLLINS

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships wit...
DOUG COLLINS

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn&...
GAIL COLLINS

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to br...
GAIL COLLINS

Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type...
DOUG COLLINS

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember th...
GAIL COLLINS

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
SUZANNE COLLINS

Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
SUZANNE COLLINS

The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica...
GAIL COLLINS

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS

Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,...
GAIL COLLINS

It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really inte...
JESSICA COLLINS

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
JUDY COLLINS

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS

Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat...
BOOTSY COLLINS

In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill...
GAIL COLLINS

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in co...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during ...
LILY COLLINS

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, ...
SUZANNE COLLINS

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians we...
BOOTSY COLLINS

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS

My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just nee...
PETRA COLLINS

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
WILLIAM COLLINS

Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.
WILLIAM COLLINS

And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
WILLIAM COLLINS

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full o...
LILY COLLINS

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...
WILKIE COLLINS

We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselve...
TERESA COLLINS

I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
SUZANNE COLLINS

I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
SUZANNE COLLINS

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
SUZANNE COLLINS

Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
SUZANNE COLLINS

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the pos...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS

I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me...
SUZANNE COLLINS

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
SUZANNE COLLINS

We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Aim higher in case you fall short.
SUZANNE COLLINS

So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
SUZANNE COLLINS

I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no l...
SUZANNE COLLINS

The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. ...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
SUZANNE COLLINS

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
SUZANNE COLLINS

My nightmares are usually about losing you. 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....
SUZANNE COLLINS

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
SUZANNE COLLINS

I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain,...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Katniss. I remember about the bread.
SUZANNE COLLINS

Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone st...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Fire beats roses again.
SUZANNE COLLINS

In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
SUZANNE COLLINS

Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did fo...
SUZANNE COLLINS

You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s...
SUZANNE COLLINS

I had to do that. At least once.
SUZANNE COLLINS

No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...
SUZANNE COLLINS

All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he c...
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

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

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

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