Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.


Kitty O'Neill Collins

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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