When you're guarding him, it's like pushing a wall for 48 minutes or however long you're in there. He really tries to lean on you. I just tried to do a good job pushing him and make him shoot over me. Whenever he's going to turn to the basket, just stick my chin there or my chest, and hold my position.


Jason Collins

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also. I just really didn't understand...
NICOLE RICHIE
Dad, youre so far off the mark I can't even...Lincoln hasn't pressured me at all!" I grabbed my bag ...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON
I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. ...
NIA LONG
They put something to the side of my ribs and when I started
fighting he said 'shoot him, just ...
HENRY THOMPSON
I didn't call him over there to lure him over there to shoot him. I called him over there [because] ...
WILLIAM WELLS
Trent's the starter, and he has been doing a great job, ... When it's my turn to go in the game, I j...
CHARLIE FRYE
I was riding him and he kind of faced me a little bit. He grabbed my leg and tried to roll over, but...
KYLE REILLY
I knew he was serious. My instinct [was] to just turn around, and I tried to beat him up.
ERIC PIVA
His girlfriend had called him and told him that whenever her ex-boyfriend saw my son, that he was go...
JUAN MORALES
It wasn't 30 minutes after he enlisted in the Navy that he found out he would be going to Iraq. I ju...
AMY DULWORTH
I just tried to hold my ground. If he bumped into me, I wasn't going to give him any room. Fortunate...
FELIX FRIEDT
My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking dow...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
He's one of those guys I kept my eye on early in spring training. There was talk of sending him down...
JOHN RUSSELL
(Guarding Morrison) isn't something you ask for. It's a job, whether it's Adam Morrison or whoever t...
ARRON AFFLALO
I just tried to regroup. The only thing I could do was put pressure on him and the only way to do th...
JIMMY WHITE
It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be ther...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
On long marriages. He tries to make me happy, and I let him.
CAROL COVIN
You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
CHLOE NEILL
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS
We were pushing it just trying to get him into this meet. A 54 or 55 would have seemed like progress...
ERROL LOGUE
I was trying to put my nose in the back of his jersey and just follow him wherever he was going. I g...
KYLE MACGILLIS
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
Everybody is pushing me (to commit). I am focused on just graduating in the midyear and having a goo...
LOUIS HOLMES
The guy hasn't played in five months or something like that. We're not just going to throw that guy ...
GREGG POPOVICH
I just tried to go out there and contain him, ... It was my job today -- it was my job the last two ...
DERON WILLIAMS
He was in a very good position, tracking. And when Robby called on him, he just exploded. To have a ...
JEFF TROSCLAIR
You come down to the last couple of laps, and teammates or not, all bets are off. He learned what he...
BRIAN VICKERS
Working out for me is something I do when I feel like it. But it's really about feeling good and...
LEA MICHELE
My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS
Someone did a graphic of me in my jersey, and Jordan, they dubbed him guarding me, and Kanye's f...
STEPHEN CURRY
We didn't do a good job on him the whole game. In the first half, he drove to the basket and made fr...
BARRY GEBHART
I just went out and did what my coach told me to do -- wrestle the entire match. I knew I had him ab...
ANDREW MARTIN
I told him it's okay. I've been there a lot last year. I know the feeling, you just got to shake it ...
MICHAEL PITTMAN
It was devastating to see my baby laying there on that table and I just talked to him just last nigh...
DELBERT WILLIAMS
I was just trying to catch him. He had a little bit of a step on me. I just waited for him to bring ...
COLBY ARMSTRONG
There are some things I have to get done that would affect the way I do my job. My father's got to g...
BOBBY CARPENTER
Then I was just trying to make my way back up. I got Andretti going into three. I got a good run on ...
BOBBY RAHAL
I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or ...
JAMES JOYCE
Used it on me one time on a drag route and I lost him. Had to grab him and pull him back. Good thing...
DARREN WOODSON
I have told Derek we will see him on Monday because I want him to make sure he gives it plenty of th...
TONY MOWBRAY
I'm going to try to help Jason as much as possible. He has never had a guy like me to guide him. Whe...
GARY PAYTON
He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if t...
CECELIA AHERN
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doe...
TIM ALLEN
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I didn't just love him…I needed him. Not in some desperate "you complete me" sort of way. No, Vinc...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT
J.P.'s looking real good. I like the way he's skating. We're going to start pushing him harder and h...
LINDY RUFF
I was just running as hard as I could, wanting to make them make a play, and the next thing you know...
DAVE ROBERTS
I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me ...
MITCH HEDBERG
I never even heard of him or met him in my life. But when I got downstairs, he said, 'I've been wait...
HAL TURNER
It was terrible, and I even told the police officer when I saw him heading down, I said, 'Where are ...
DANNY GARCIA
He is a real energetic player. I just tried to be there when he caught the ball so he wouldn't get a...
BRYANT DILLON
The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he i...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON
I love Richie just as much before as I do after. And the best thing to do, both for him and for us, ...
JON BON JOVI
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time ...
ARNOLD PALMER
When I tried to do a search for marital advise on Google, it tried to finish my sentence for me, jus...
ANONYMOUS
I told them, you can't put a good player in a position to score like that. You just can't do it if y...
ALEC GUNN
I told them, you can't put a good player in a position to score like that. You just can't do it if y...
ALEC GUNN
He made a play on the ball; he was in the right position to make a play, plain and simple. I saw him...
KEARY COLBERT
Coach gave me an assignment, I just tried to be there when he catches the ball to make it a little h...
BRYANT DILLON
It was a great challenge for me. I just tried to come out and play him as tough as I could. I was de...
DUSTIN SALISBERY
We are always taught to hold the man with the ball until our teammates get there. I tried to hold my...
KOREY MORRISON
He calls me his Queen of the Night. He shows me the wonders in this incredible city. He encourages m...
KAREN MARIE MONING
He likes to dribble a lot, ... so I told our defenders to just stay on his back, don't let him turn....
ALAN COOK
I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when ...
MELANIA TRUMP
We didn't think Danny was going to give it up that easy. It was just a straight line drive and we'd ...
STEPHEN JACKSON
The understanding's there and my job is to get my good kicking game in and whenever there's go-forwa...
ANDREW JOHNS
I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach t...
ALLEN IVERSON
You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS
He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and...
VERONICA ROTH
Whatever defense we were in, we had to stretch that towards him. If he put the ball on the floor, we...
WAYNE MORGAN
Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the ...
KALEY CUOCO
Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. Th...
IAN DUNBAR
I don't even remember facing him. I think I might have faced him once when I got traded in 2003. He ...
SHEA HILLENBRAND
I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if I just ...
MELINA MARCHETTA
He was a little throttled up from laying over on the field and I had his mouth gagged over going int...
GARRETT GOMEZ
I just told him, 'Hey, you've got to let it go. He's a hard worker and I think he wants success, but...
JERRY RICE
It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to tur...
LAUREN ALCORN
Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they ha...
JANE RUSSELL
I pushed passed him. He grabbed my hand and swung me back towards him. Then he pushed me against the...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON
It's been tough for Fred this year because of the thumb; he's been in and out of it. He played great...
RICK CARLISLE
My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th...
BILL COSBY
I just talked to him, ... he said he feels fine. It's going to be a long road for him, but he feels ...
DONALD DRIVER
I really need to remember to block my thoughts."

"Oh, come on," he pulled me closer towar...
NICOLE SOBON
He believed very strongly in the mission and he believed in what he was doing over there. I am going...
MICHAEL PROCOPIO
I've got probably 20 to 30 pounds and six inches on him. I just tried to make him do what he didn't ...
TIM MORRIS
starting over but its still all the same. a pounding feeling in my chest when every are on my mind. ...
IJIRASHIIJACK
The Vine and the Goat A vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, p...
AESOP
When he shoots on me, I just try and bury him with my strength.
FRANK MOLINARO
Another time, another place, I'd back you to that wall right there, or any place you wanted to go, a...
JENNIFER ST. GILES
He was telling Marc, 'C'mon, throw it my way,' ... and I told him, 'We're going to throw the footbal...
TORRY HOLT
He's just like my brother, ... If he was in my shoes I'd be right there for him too.
BEANIE SIGEL
Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is...
JOHN GREEN
When I saw him jump for it and it kicked away, I just put my head down. I kept on going, hoping ther...
CURTIS GRANDERSON
He said Frank Reich was always there pushing him to be better every day. That's the way it was ... a...
J.P. LOSMAN
But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lor...
QURAN
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you...
FAY WRAY
We knew he wouldn't go all the way, so early on, we took some pitches and tried to make him have som...
DEWEY KALMER
He's not Superman, so we're going to treat him like any other guy. Hopefully we can do a good job of...
TRACY SMITH
Personally, I think I did horribly on him in the first half. I think when I started guarding him, he...
BOBBY FRASOR
But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...
TONI MORRISON

More Jason Collins

What I want to say would be out of character for me to say, but we just need to get out heads out of...
JASON COLLINS
We need to get our heads out of our (butts).
JASON COLLINS
If he can help the team win some games, that is all I care about. If he came in and helped us win so...
JASON COLLINS
I think he would appreciate someone on his team who isn't afraid to give a hard foul in the playoffs...
JASON COLLINS
Coach gave it to us. He told us what we needed to do.
JASON COLLINS
It's not good. It's tough because this has been my not-so-bad-as-the-other-one leg. It is better. Th...
JASON COLLINS
Guarding Shaq is not a one-man job. It's going to be by committee.
JASON COLLINS
In their six losses, three of them have been to the Collins twins. That's the key ingredient right t...
JASON COLLINS
When you're at home, you have to defend your home court. Whatever home court advantage we have, it's...
JASON COLLINS
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
I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN 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