I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire. — 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
Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My words hang in the air. I look to the screen, hoping to see them recording some wave of reconciliation going through… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I say we try it,' says Peeta. 'Katniss is right.' Finnick looks at Johanna and raises his eyebrows. He will not go… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.” Annie, who's on Johanna's other side,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks… — 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
Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say. "For what? Nothing's going on here," he says.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Peeta looks at the glass again and puts it together. "You mean this will make me puke?" My prep team laughs hysterically.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of… — 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 Image
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 Image
“The same goes for the other captured tributes, Johanna and Enobaria.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“¡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 Image
“I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
