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I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg and pull myself over to her. Her voice remains steady as she croons to Buttercup. "It's all right, baby, it's all right. We'll be OK down there."
My mother wraps her arms around us. I allow myself to feel young for a moment and rest my head on her shoulder.


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It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
SUZANNE COLLINS As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have ...
SUZANNE COLLINS In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his i...
SUZANNE COLLINS What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How ...
SUZANNE COLLINS We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, ...
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.
SUZANNE COLLINS He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospit...
SUZANNE COLLINS Because...because...she came here with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger G...
SUZANNE COLLINS We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I...
SUZANNE COLLINS You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
SUZANNE COLLINS Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
SUZANNE COLLINS Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.
SUZANNE COLLINS I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki...
SUZANNE COLLINS Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.
SUZANNE COLLINS She crept up on me.
SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
SUZANNE COLLINS How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a...
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 Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
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