Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight. — 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
You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to… — Finnick Odair Mockingjay Copy Share Image
I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“There's something else there as well, something entirely her own. An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I drink in his wholeness, the soundness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors reassure him, flash lights in… — 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
“When I finally begin to surface into the sterile hospital room in 13, I remember. I was under the influence of sleep… — 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
“Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
