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I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.


Suzanne Collins

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But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
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SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
SUZANNE COLLINS What have the nibblers ever done for you?"
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SUZANNE COLLINS You want a piece of advice?" said Ripred.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.
SUZANNE COLLINS After all, suicide is contagious.
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Well Im older now and still
Against the wind
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SUZANNE COLLINS I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
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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....
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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.
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SUZANNE COLLINS No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
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SUZANNE COLLINS Stay with me.

Always.
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I'm j...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
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A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
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Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
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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.
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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...
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SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
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Well, there's no good resp...
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"It must b...
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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 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.
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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 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 They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You wi...
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.
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