“If he dies, I'll never go home. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The arena messed us all up pretty good, don't you think? Or do you still feel like the girl who volunteered for… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The Games are still on. We have left the arena, but since Peeta and I weren’t killed, his last wish to preserve… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death." "Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find… — 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
Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile. "Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be… — 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
And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest… — 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
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