Years Quotes by Suzanne Collins

Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run

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In high school for a couple years we did archery.

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When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

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Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

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So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever…

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Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends…

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My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I…

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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…

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She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.

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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…

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For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a…

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The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light,…

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But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be…

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I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get…

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I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things…

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Want a sugar cube? [...] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas…

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If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and…

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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…

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Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children…

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I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know…

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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…

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They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray…

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Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put…

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At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with…

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Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that…

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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…

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Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much…

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I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

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'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still…

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Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone,…

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If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which…

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But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown…

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There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all…

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I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?" "No, about six…

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Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the…

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