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Mother Quotes by Suzanne Collins
- My mother says healers are born, not made.
- I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is…
- My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression…
- No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
- All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More…
- I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another…
- I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg and pull myself over to her. Her voice remains steady as she…
- One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it…
- Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to…
- Caesar Flickerman asks if the president has a date in mind. "Oh, before we set a date, we better clear it with Katniss's mother," says…
- See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want…
- So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you…
- My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger, still…
- The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.
- 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 Capitol in a…
- My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.
- Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.
- A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and…
- He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to…
- She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching…
- In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle…
- And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had…
- Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows…
- At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like…
- 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 upset, takes a…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. — Dan Aykroyd
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann