As long as there are rules at the start, everyone knows what they need to follow.


Dave Collins

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Everyone will be ever happy with thier life, as long as they listen to there heart not what everyone...
MIKE GRIST
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
As long as you follow the new procedural rules, it shouldn't hurt you that bad if the bankruptcy is ...
FRANK ADAMS
Everyone thinks they are creating secure systems, but as long as there are criminals they will find ...
BERNHARD OTUPAL
As a rule,
I believe people shouldn't follow rules;
rules should follow people.
ERIC MICHA'EL LEVENTHAL
Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something.
ARDIT BALISHA
I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
TAYLOR HAWKINS
The crisis team will be at Conley for as long as they are needed, ... If they need to go back on Tue...
DEBORAH LONG
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
AMELIA EARHART
As long as there are soldiers that need it, we plan to continue.
ANN SWEARINGEN
(As) part of that proposal, they look at the faculty we would need, the student need, the industry n...
DEREK HALL
There seems to be different policies and different rules within state government. Perhaps more consi...
BOB PHILLIPS
He's done the things that a lot of us are trying to get done. He's been there. He knows what it take...
ALVIS WHITTED
The good thing about this is there are no rules. As long as we listen to our viewers, we can try jus...
ANTHONY MARSHALL
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN
There is definitely tension there (between Collins and Cherry Creek). But I think everyone has some ...
CARLEY BEAUDREAU
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
The most important thing that we have to provide every day is that we are the pack leader, that we s...
CESAR MILLAN
They really need to start providing guidance as soon as they can.
ANDREW BAKER
We need to start playing better as a team. Everyone has to give more effort, not just when we are be...
MIKE ACKERMAN
People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a j...
ADAM GILES
Certainly the stats so far suggest Carlton aren't going as long as what they did previously. We need...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
JEF RASKIN
Who Knows Whom, and Who Knows What? You need to focus on helping these people advance as quickly as ...
LIVIU DEDES
Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS)
In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking f...
VICTOR KOO
As a Pilgrim, follow the rules carefully and you're sure to arrive home safely.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but t...
DITA VON TEESE
Having Dave in the lineup is huge. Not only is he a great player but he makes the other guys in the ...
GLEN GARDNER
There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there ar...
NEIL GAIMAN
I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compas...
MICHELLE OBAMA
Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.
AMIT KALANTRI
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however ric...
NICK CLEGG
Ed is a visionary. He has a very long-term point of view and he knows exactly what he believes in. Y...
ROGER ALTMAN
There was miscommunications between us and the officials as far as what the rules were.
BOB MORTON
A lot of women think they need to be a good golfer, but what they need to know are the rules and eti...
KATHY LOBATO
love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
JODI PICOULT
Students just need to follow the rules that are in place. If they're not followed, that's when thing...
WILLIAM MASSEY
As long as hairs are there, there are going to be hair problems similarly, as long as shrinks are th...
DR HITESH C SHETH
There are rules and ethics that companies have to follow and should not breach.
HIROSHI OKUDA
Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate.
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about th...
ETHAN SUPLEE
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
ALBERT CAMUS
The shelter will be open as long as they need it.
JODY VAN COONEY
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS
What all people who are engaged in positions of responsibility at all companies need to understand i...
MARK WELDON
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequ...
ALAFAIR BURKE
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN
Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You...
RAY ROMANO
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal l...
TOM SCHOLZ
[Stewart] is repeating what everyone knows. As a fan watching this, it's obviously spectacular. As a...
JAMIE MCMURRAY
Everybody knows there are other guys who are just as talented coming in. They are going to give me a...
JOE SURRATT
I don't have any problems with him missing as long as he knows what he has to do and the time period...
LEN SOMMERS
What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this."
"Amazing ...
RICK RIORDAN
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
CALVIN TRILLIN
As Grandfather used to say, 'In a crowd, everyone plays follow-the leader, even when they don't know...
RUSKIN BOND
I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred year...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have alwa...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
There is no inflation, as long as you are buying computers and motor vehicles, but for everyone else...
JOEL NAROFF
The president knows, as I know, there are no indispensable men ... He knows that I serve at his plea...
DONALD RUMSFELD
The president knows, as I know, there are no indispensable men. ... He knows that I serve at his ple...
DON RUMSFELD
I just tell these guys where to be and at what time and what day and they're always there. As long a...
DON LIPPI
As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia...
JAAN TALLINN
The future is what NASCAR wants it to be. They are going to make of it (the series) what they want t...
EDDIE HOFFMAN
Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly calle...
ROBERT CAILLIAU
Rankings don't mean anything. The bottom line is filling needs. From the Florida State perspective a...
JAMIE NEWBERG
If they don't follow the rules there may not be any choice in the future but to do further restricti...
CAROL MAJESKE
I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE
There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.
JENNIFER NIVEN
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK
Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER
We are trying to ascertain as quickly as possible whether more victims received fake flu shots and w...
CHUCK ROSENBERG
I'll follow through as long as it's in local criminal court.
DIANE DISTEFANO
I feel the customers will keep coming back as long as they feel you care that they are there.
CHARITY PARKER
I was amazed at just what a great improviser in the true sense of the word he is, As frail as Dave i...
MICHAEL MOORE
No. Everyone knows what they should be doing.
BRIAN RAFALSKI
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently ...
ANDREW ELDRITCH
That myth has been broken long ago, ... Everyone who follows the Olympics knows commercialism and co...
MARC GANIS
In China you need to know how to do things, and there are boundaries that you are not supposed to ov...
LU YIYI
We want to stay exactly as long as they need and not one day more.
DR. CAROL CURRIER
You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
DAVID ORTIZ
I support a leash law for cats, 100 percent. There are numerous cities in the country that have leas...
GALEN BARRETT
Everyone doesn’t need to have the same beliefs, we just need to start believing in everyone.
SAM KILLERMANN
They need to make it as clear about [what] they are doing with Siebel as they did last year with Peo...
MARC HEBERT
Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business t...
JOSEPH BADARACCO
The biggest challenge is that Sam and Dave are perfectionists. Really trying to satisfy their expect...
RANDY RANDOLPH
The North Koreans said that they are willing to dismantle their nuclear weapons as long as there is ...
KANTATHI SUPHAMONGKHON
If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people t...
BOB MCKENZIE
They are as good as any team we have played. Keith knows what to do with what he has. They have a go...
PAUL BIANCARDI
This (rescue) operation will not stop. We will continue as long as there is hope. . . . We don't kno...
JUAN REBOLLEDO
The bears came out this week and didn't spook everyone off. When the market was too weak, there were...
CHARLES PAYNE
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the pape...
BUDDY EBSEN

More Dave Collins

It's tough any time you make a lot of new acquisitions. It takes time to jell.
DAVE COLLINS
I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.
DAVE COLLINS
Quite believably 13% of Americans believe Joan of Ark was the wife of Noah. It must be true because ...
DAVE COLLINS
We're going to have a mixed reaction because folks in our classrooms are representative of the popul...
DAVE COLLINS
He knows it's time to perform or go to the 7-Eleven. . . . The opportunity is here.
DAVE COLLINS
I think before ownership was trying to influence him too much, and now after the free agent signing ...
DAVE COLLINS
I thought initially I was going to wait and decide after the season. But I went ahead and talked to ...
DAVE COLLINS
I just told Clint I'm honored that the organization has asked me to come back, but I'm not going to ...
DAVE COLLINS
[99th over: England 367-6 (Flintoff 14, Jones 8) Having seen Pietersen get out playing the hook shot...
DAVE COLLINS
That might be something we might need to see, not as the norm, but certainly as a far more accepted ...
DAVE COLLINS
At the Commonwealth Games there were many promising performances and some notable steps forward by a...
DAVE COLLINS
Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
JACKIE COLLINS
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
KIM COLLINS
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
JUDY COLLINS
We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It'...
PETRA COLLINS
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much m...
JACKIE COLLINS
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get...
JACKIE COLLINS
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
JACKIE COLLINS
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is...
JACKIE COLLINS
Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want ...
JACKIE COLLINS
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else wo...
JACKIE COLLINS
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k...
JACKIE COLLINS
Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's reall...
JACKIE COLLINS
The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time wit...
JACKIE COLLINS
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS
I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They...
JACKIE COLLINS
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then...
JACKIE COLLINS
My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
JACKIE COLLINS
I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about ...
JACKIE COLLINS
I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne becau...
JACKIE COLLINS
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you...
JACKIE COLLINS
I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know ...
JACKIE COLLINS
If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to ...
JACKIE COLLINS
If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'...
GAIL COLLINS
I prefer black music in general.
PHIL COLLINS
It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but ...
LILY COLLINS
I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships wit...
DOUG COLLINS
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS
When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn&...
GAIL COLLINS
It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS
Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to br...
GAIL COLLINS
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS
When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type...
DOUG COLLINS
I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS
Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember th...
GAIL COLLINS
Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
SUZANNE COLLINS
The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica...
GAIL COLLINS
I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS
Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,...
GAIL COLLINS
It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really inte...
JESSICA COLLINS
I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
JUDY COLLINS
I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS
Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS
Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat...
BOOTSY COLLINS
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill...
GAIL COLLINS
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in co...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during ...
LILY COLLINS
If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS
We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians we...
BOOTSY COLLINS
I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS
My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just nee...
PETRA COLLINS
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
WILLIAM COLLINS
Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.
WILLIAM COLLINS
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
WILLIAM COLLINS
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full o...
LILY COLLINS
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...
WILKIE COLLINS
We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselve...
TERESA COLLINS
I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
SUZANNE COLLINS
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
SUZANNE COLLINS
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the pos...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS
It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me...
SUZANNE COLLINS
So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
SUZANNE COLLINS
We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Aim higher in case you fall short.
SUZANNE COLLINS
So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no l...
SUZANNE COLLINS
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
SUZANNE COLLINS
So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
SUZANNE COLLINS
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
SUZANNE COLLINS
You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
SUZANNE COLLINS
You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for th...
SUZANNE COLLINS
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anywa...
SUZANNE COLLINS
One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Alrea...
SUZANNE COLLINS
My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter....
SUZANNE COLLINS
And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain,...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Katniss. I remember about the bread.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone st...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS
At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Fire beats roses again.
SUZANNE COLLINS
In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did fo...
SUZANNE COLLINS
You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS
You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I had to do that. At least once.
SUZANNE COLLINS
No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...
SUZANNE COLLINS
All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he c...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Stay with me.

Always.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pl...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
SUZANNE COLLINS
No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
SUZANNE COLLINS
You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't p...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distr...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
SUZANNE COLLINS
What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with bo...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
SUZANNE COLLINS
There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to y...
SUZANNE COLLINS
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...
SUZANNE COLLINS
At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
SUZANNE COLLINS
She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
SUZANNE COLLINS
They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS
That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
SUZANNE COLLINS
There are much worse games to play.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Some walks you have to take alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I must have loved you a lot.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
SUZANNE COLLINS
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
SUZANNE COLLINS
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
SUZANNE COLLINS
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
SUZANNE COLLINS
The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
SUZANNE COLLINS
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
SUZANNE COLLINS
You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
SUZANNE COLLINS
I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS
You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
SUZANNE COLLINS
It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
SUZANNE COLLINS
While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
SUZANNE COLLINS
The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS
But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
SUZANNE COLLINS
The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS
She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS
But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
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