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Own Quotes by Suzanne Collins
- I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or…
- Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in…
- How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning…
- Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do…
- It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.
- I take a few breaths to calm myself, step back, and lift Buttercup by the scruff of the neck. "I should've drowned you when I…
- Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own…
- You would think after all the hours I’d spent with Gale– watching him talk and laugh and frown– that I would know all there was…
- I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I…
- Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and…
- I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at…
- I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.
- But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the…
- They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
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