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A few years ago it seemed that would never happen. Now it seems never is pretty close.


Ed Collins

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SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
SUZANNE COLLINS Is that why you hate me?" I ask.
"Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also...
SUZANNE COLLINS