Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire Quotes

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

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

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

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

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

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

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

I had to do that. At least once.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

You could do a lot worse.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

I thought he wanted it, anyway, " I say. "Not like this, " Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Peeta" I said "Stay with me"I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always

I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

We are what no one wants to miss at the party. I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home, " I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you, " he says.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know, " Haymitch says.

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?