It's a fad thing, a novelty -- it's like a pair of trainers, one minute they're in and the next minute they're out.


Suzanne Shaw

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Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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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.
SUZANNE COLLINS
In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom o...
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...
SUZANNE COLLINS
To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that ga...
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 ...
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
After all, suicide is contagious.
SUZANNE YOUNG
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
In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we fi...
SUZANNE MOARNY
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
SUZANNE LAFOLLETTE
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the ...
SUZANNE LAFOLLETTE
Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates.

And what...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Even bitches can get a break in life.
SUZANNE WRIGHT
Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never...
SUZANNE FINNAMORE