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Jim Collins

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We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
BILLY GRAHAM We'll have to talk about that later, Jim,
JIM NANTZ It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN Tony made it clear to myself and Jim that he wished for the team and organization to carry on. We wi...
BILL POLIAN We should talk about moving the fair parade to Fort Collins. We lost the ball somewhere. I know Love...
ROBERT SCOTT We would have made it happen without it. This funding does allow us to take on these programs now.
CONNIE LODEN We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Normally, we're never satisfied.
CRAIG GROESCHEL People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG We cannot sustain the mistakes that we made, and I will not allow it,
LES MILES I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it...
BEN HOROWITZ Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We pick up the phone and talk to the Secret Service, if not daily, then once a week. We have a direc...
CHRIS HENDERSON Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt o...
HAL SUTTON Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Collins recovered a fumble on Elk Grove's final drive to give us the ball for the last time and Came...
GREG BROWN It was miserable. I made no secret about that. We have too many good players on this team to accept ...
MICHAEL YOUNG When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or be...
BJORK I think we are going to definitely have a fight on state-secret issues. I would also point out that ...
KEVIN BANKSTON I want it gone, but we have to follow the right channels.
LAURA REAVES The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
WILMA MANKILLER We have made it clear that it is premature and it is unjustified to talk about sanctions when the in...
ABDALLAH BAALI He's throwing the ball great. We just can't go to him when it means something yet. I have to talk to...
DUSTY BAKER We also made it clear that if they begin reprocessing (nuclear material), it changes the entire poli...
COLIN POWELL No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine ...
RICHARD BACH We felt like if we could knock them [the alcohol-promoting commercials] out on the big screen that i...
BILLY WATSON The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we'...
RUTH REICHL Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART Fiber optics have linked the world together and made our world, our planet, basically one small plac...
DAVID KIRKPATRICK I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with mer...
SIA We are transitioning rapidly from a traditional manufacturing and agricultural society to a competit...
MICHAEL HARRIS Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. ...
FABRIZIO DE ANDRé When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M Even the guys that didn't score made major contributions. We didn't talk much about Riverview's stre...
ANDY MANGIN I tell my girls don't talk it, walk it. Talk is nice but we have to get it done on the floor. We use...
DEAN SERBUS To be honest, we don't have the financial resources. We don't have any television channels.
SALIH MUTLAQ We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism
HO CHI MINH The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it...
TRYON EDWARDS The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in i...
TRYON EDWARDS I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow...
ASA DON BROWN God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns mad...
BILLY GRAHAM There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
AGNES REPPLIER [Jim] and I feel we have unfinished business,
JIM COLBORN I think we are going to move hastily to get this done. I had a long talk with Jim Armstrong today on...
SAM WRIGHT It's our secret weapon. Our team likes the song a lot. We made it just for the team.
CARLOS SILVA We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocen...
DYLAN THOMAS When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
LEE STRASBERG If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we ...
BRIAN EVENSON When there are 100 HD channels to choose from, just being in HD won't be a big deal. By 2010, or may...
GREG MOYER We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution...
MARCO RUBIO Initial contact has been made early on and there is progress through other channels.
JOSEPH PRICE I'd talk to him and he'd say, 'We'll have the wedding we never had. We'll have the wedding pictures ...
MICHELLE YAZZIE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We don't allow them on the streets and we don't allow motorized vehicles on our trails or in the par...
DAVE CUBIT We could not have done this without Jim (Johnson).
LARRY GUTSHALL People said that we must have seen a lot of beautiful homes, but we never set foot in anyone's home....
JOSEPH CARROLL When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES Let's face it. The secret is out. We have a problem,
ABRAHAM TWERSKI I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without a...
BILL GATES If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.
BEN NELSON The sparring has gone very well. It made sense that Brian should work out with Jim Rock because he's...
HARRY HAWKINS It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSN...
ADAM MCKAY We made up our minds that we would never let that happen again, if we could help it.
BILL KNIGHT I can relate to a guy like Trent. He's a grinder. When we talk, it never ends on a negative note. We...
ANTONIO BRYANT We were sick about that. Kerry Collins is not the fastest guy, first of all.
VONNIE HOLLIDAY We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to los...
MATT STONE We argue that you can't have a system of secret detention centers without secret flights to get them...
ANNE FITZGERALD What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest sta...
MALIN AKERMAN If we can come out against Collins and score in the game's first 10 minutes, it would have changed t...
CHERYL INGHAM Then we started going once a month to Pennsylvania and would practice reading commercials and on the...
AMBER ALLISON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...

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JIM COLLINS He's messing with traffic and causing havoc by walking in the street because he could cause an accid...
JIM COLLINS It (the collision) was a solid impact to them on the fender on the passenger side of the car.
JIM COLLINS Coach has a way of having a relationship with quarterbacks, whether it's good or stormy. The ones wh...
JIM COLLINS You can't prohibit them, but you can control them.
JIM COLLINS We are now growing at a faster rate, and we feel it is due to the programming.
JIM COLLINS Web hosting was the first product in Affinity's portfolio, and it's still a very important part of o...
JIM COLLINS The gift is really the programming and the content Sirius delivers versus just going out and buying ...
JIM COLLINS The gift is really the programming and the content Sirius delivers versus just going out and buying ...
JIM COLLINS [Sun's workstations enabled buyers to lower costs and boost efficiency just at a time -- the recessi...
JIM COLLINS No terrestrial radio station can provide the 125 channels of programming that we offer, including th...
JIM COLLINS They do see us as a threat and actively try to take action and publicity to try and negate our posit...
JIM COLLINS Clearly there's been phenomenal growth here, and a lot of that can be attributed to Howard.
JIM COLLINS Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
JACKIE COLLINS Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
KIM COLLINS I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
JUDY COLLINS We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It'...
PETRA COLLINS I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much m...
JACKIE COLLINS People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get...
JACKIE COLLINS Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
JACKIE COLLINS I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is...
JACKIE COLLINS Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want ...
JACKIE COLLINS Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else wo...
JACKIE COLLINS I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k...
JACKIE COLLINS Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's reall...
JACKIE COLLINS The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time wit...
JACKIE COLLINS I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They...
JACKIE COLLINS I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then...
JACKIE COLLINS My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
JACKIE COLLINS I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about ...
JACKIE COLLINS I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne becau...
JACKIE COLLINS Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you...
JACKIE COLLINS I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know ...
JACKIE COLLINS If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to ...
JACKIE COLLINS If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'...
GAIL COLLINS I prefer black music in general.
PHIL COLLINS It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but ...
LILY COLLINS I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships wit...
DOUG COLLINS Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn&...
GAIL COLLINS It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to br...
GAIL COLLINS Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type...
DOUG COLLINS I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember th...
GAIL COLLINS Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
SUZANNE COLLINS Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
SUZANNE COLLINS The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica...
GAIL COLLINS I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,...
GAIL COLLINS It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really inte...
JESSICA COLLINS I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
JUDY COLLINS I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas...
SUZANNE COLLINS I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat...
BOOTSY COLLINS In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill...
GAIL COLLINS Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in co...
SUZANNE COLLINS I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during ...
LILY COLLINS If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians we...
BOOTSY COLLINS I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just nee...
PETRA COLLINS How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
WILLIAM COLLINS Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.
WILLIAM COLLINS And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
WILLIAM COLLINS To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full o...
LILY COLLINS The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...
WILKIE COLLINS We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselve...
TERESA COLLINS I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces...
SUZANNE COLLINS I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
SUZANNE COLLINS I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
SUZANNE COLLINS That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
SUZANNE COLLINS Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
SUZANNE COLLINS The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the pos...
SUZANNE COLLINS Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me...
SUZANNE COLLINS So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad...
SUZANNE COLLINS I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
SUZANNE COLLINS We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our...
SUZANNE COLLINS Aim higher in case you fall short.
SUZANNE COLLINS So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every...
SUZANNE COLLINS I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no l...
SUZANNE COLLINS The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. ...
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....
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 Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distr...
SUZANNE COLLINS I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
SUZANNE COLLINS What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with bo...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
SUZANNE COLLINS There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to y...
SUZANNE COLLINS But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...
SUZANNE COLLINS At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
SUZANNE COLLINS She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
SUZANNE COLLINS I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
SUZANNE COLLINS They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
SUZANNE COLLINS I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
SUZANNE COLLINS I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
SUZANNE COLLINS Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
SUZANNE COLLINS There are much worse games to play.
SUZANNE COLLINS Some walks you have to take alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y...
SUZANNE COLLINS I must have loved you a lot.
SUZANNE COLLINS Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
SUZANNE COLLINS What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
SUZANNE COLLINS You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
SUZANNE COLLINS It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
SUZANNE COLLINS The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
SUZANNE COLLINS For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
SUZANNE COLLINS You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
SUZANNE COLLINS I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
SUZANNE COLLINS Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
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.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
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...
SUZANNE COLLINS Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
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 My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS