Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay Quotes

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

there's plenty of blame to go around.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.

You love me. Real or not real?"I tell him, "Real.

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot, ” I say.

I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine."It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

I'm running on hate.

Stay with me.Always.

I knew you'd kiss me.""How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain, " He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

Do you find this...distracting?

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.

I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

And if we burn, you burn with us.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good when really it's for there own good.

Why...do you find this...distracting?

You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future.