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Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.


Suzanne Collins

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Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
SUZANNE COLLINS Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. ...
SUZANNE COLLINS If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be l...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
DEAN KOONTZ Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
ROBERT JORDAN This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Maybe they will take us alive or dead. We will not surrender. Our morale is high and we will die as ...
AHMED SAADAT You're not dead but you're not alive. You're a wintergirl.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to ...
HENRY MILLER Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to ...
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. And do not speak of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead; nay, (they are) alive, but you do no...
QURAN One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but aliv...
ROBERT JORDAN I like a man who's good, but not too good--for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
MAE WEST If you're here for inspiration, you're too late. If you're here for the funeral, you're too early.
WILL & GRACE I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
JEWEL I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.
DR. RICHARD SELZER Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as...
MILOVAN DJILAS The city is not dead and can't be allowed to die, ... We owe [rebuilding] to our children and to our...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN know if they are alive or dead.
AARON NEVILLE We are going to take them out dead or alive.
JUAN SANCHEZ Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The prob...
CARROLL BRYANT I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
JANE AUSTEN We are not quite sure if he is alive or dead,
BAQIR JABBUR I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
VICTORIA AVEYARD It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp ...
CHRISTINA HENRY Die Dead Enough.
DAVE MUSTAINE God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
ANONYMOUS 150 years ago you weren't alive but you weren't dead either.
GEORGE OTERO Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER When you stop learning, you still alive but your spirit is dead.
JOHN DI LEMME Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
WILLIAM MARKIEWICZ Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were lis...
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and y...
LOUIS C. K. People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Relativity might be as dead as the dead because as it can't exist in the dead.
EPHDAN Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
SUZANNE COLLINS To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is no...
SAMUEL BUTLER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
JOHN DONNE Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS And it was then she realized that even something alive can be dying. Never judge by an appearance wh...
MEGAN NICHOLE TUCKER Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
WILLIAM SAROYAN Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.
RICHELLE MEAD Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The worm may be dead, but hands-on learning is alive at Bailey Station.
JANET MARTIN They've deemed it that we're not allowed to see our heroic dead coming back from Iraq, but there, in...
TOM RYAN All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Because you might just get there and turn around and want to leave again. I'm not going to ping-pong...
BUT APRIL I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there ...
BUT BURNETT Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall.
BUT BURNETT Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s...
BUT APRIL Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy.
BUT APRIL We still believe he's alive. Many people tell us, 'You're wrong,' but he's not dead until you prove ...
DARLENE GUSTOVICH Petty deviance is encouraged
JKRAK They desert you even when you are alive, O madman; what good can they do when someone is dead?
ATHARVA VEDA As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.
RACHEL VAN DYKEN Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It
C.G. JUNG I wanted to hug him, tell him it was gonna be alright. Tell him I'm not as fragile as I look. But I ...
JANAE MITCHELL As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dea...
GEORGE HARRISON As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It...
DAVID BYRNE If you are reading this quote you are not dead, if you are not dead then you are alive, if you are a...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV No good Indian but a dead Indian
AMERICAN PROVERB Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They ...
E.J. STEVENS People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
ROBIN WILLIAMS When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette...
KAREN CHANCE I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!
SHERYL CROW Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E.E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then ...
DAVID LETTERMAN Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dea...
C.S. LEWIS Ask, the risen, about life, being one of the dead, alive.
MARCO OSCAR OZ The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the...
SAMUEL BUTLER Everyone alive will die, but not everyone alive will live.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Human rights basically have been dead in our country for three years. Physically, I am tired. But I ...
LAURA POLLAN As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
JACK HENRY ABBOTT As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
JACK ABBOTT Казвам се Катнис Евърдийн. Защо не съм мъртва? Би трябв�...
Сюзан Колинс Оказва се, че въпросът, който ме разяжда от толкова вре�...
Сюзан Колинс If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...
ARUNDHATI ROY These things are fun. We're restoring something as good as dead and bringing it back to life.
HAROLD MENTZER Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
JOHN SLOAN It doesn’t mean you are alive because you are out of bed but you are probably dead if you are in b...
VIKRANT PARSAI Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Chri...
BIBLE Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as...
ADAM SILVERA Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
DEAN KOONTZ I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead.
VIGGO MORTENSEN I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what R...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't die before you're dead...
PADDICK VAN ZYL They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.
LAUREN DESTEFANO It's not so much that the brand as we know it is dead, but the way it's communicated has changed.
MARSHALL COHEN A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and lov...
PEARL BAILEY But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, m...
JACQUES DERRIDA I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get ...
EDGAR WRIGHT The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dea...
DAVID LETTERMAN What a long, strange trip it's been.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
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P...
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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.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.
SUZANNE COLLINS I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No,...
SUZANNE COLLINS Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.
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SUZANNE COLLINS You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.
SUZANNE COLLINS The question is, what are you going to do?"
It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
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SUZANNE COLLINS We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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SUZANNE COLLINS He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radia...
SUZANNE COLLINS We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Because...because...she came here with me.
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“I don't know. I...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme...
SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
SUZANNE COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates.

And what...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch...
SUZANNE COLLINS Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
SUZANNE COLLINS The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...
SUZANNE COLLINS hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
SUZANNE COLLINS So what should we do with our last few days?”
“I just want to spend every possible minute o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
SUZANNE COLLINS Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt...
SUZANNE COLLINS But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
SUZANNE COLLINS It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s...
SUZANNE COLLINS But some secrets are too delicious not to share.
SUZANNE COLLINS If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m...
SUZANNE COLLINS In high school for a couple years we did archery.
SUZANNE COLLINS