Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate? — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Peeta: You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you. Finnick: Oh, Peeta. Don't make… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him.… — 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'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just… — 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
Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge… — 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
I go to the saltwater and wash off the blood, trying to decide which I hate more, pain or itching. Fed up,… — 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
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
I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink… — 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
Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?"… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget. — 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
I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I shift on to my side and find myself looking directly into Gale's eyes. For an instant the world recedes and there… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that again.” “Or what?” I ask. “Or .… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
That's right. Who am I thinking of? Oh, I know. It's Cinna who likes you. But that's mainly because you didn't try… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted.… — 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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