Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“To show them that I’m more than just a piece in their Games?” I say.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. “Katniss…he’s still trying to keep you alive.” To keep… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen…" His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin! — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell…well she never kissed me like that…I should have volunteered to take your place… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?” asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. “I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I can barely hear her whisper. "One of us has to win this thing." My eyes travel up the long stems to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games,"… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I am living proof that the Capitol always wins. I tried to keep that sun from rising on another reaping day, I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm not their slave," the man mutters. "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato... and he killed Thresh... and he… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
I don't know how to say it exactly. Only...I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?' he asks. I shake my… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
“I want to interrupt the taping and beg Finnick’s forgiveness for every false thought I’ve ever had about him.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
“¡Es que no quiero que me conozcan! ¡Ya me están quitando el futuro! ¡No pueden llevarse también lo que me importaba en el pasado!” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
“I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
“But the significant difference between Thirteen and the Capitol are the expectations of the populace. Thirteen was used to hardship, wheras in the Capitol,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
