Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years. — 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
They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?" "No, about six… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Want a sugar cube? [...] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that… — 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
Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with… — 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
'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the… — 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
The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown… — 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
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and… — 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