Quotes by Suzanne Collins

About Suzanne Collins:

Suzanne Marie Collins is an American television writer and novelist, best known as the author of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy (which consists of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay).
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I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

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In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

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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

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

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

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And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do w...

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So what should we do with our last few days?” “I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,” Peete replies. “Come on, then,” I say, pulling him into my room. It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. ...

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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?

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The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

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

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

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The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I...

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

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

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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.

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Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me instead of brushing aside any offer of help, as I did for years out of anger. Letting her handle all the money I won. Returning her ...

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I'm going to wake Peeta," I say. "No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his." Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over unt...

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Aim higher in case you fall short.

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

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

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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?

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Author Bio

  • NameSuzanne Collins
  • DescriptionAmerican television writer and novelist
  • BornAugust 10, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksThe Hunger Games