Suzanne Collins 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.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

The star-crossed lovers

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

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

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

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

Stay with me. Always.

Tick tock, this is a clock.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

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

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

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

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.

But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve."

Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

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

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

Make sure they remember you.

Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

Destroying things is much easier than making them.

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

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

You call that a kiss?

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.

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

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

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