Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.


Wilkie Collins

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A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT
A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN
One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB
It's a mans world influenced by women.
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR
Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
TOM KRISTENSEN
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
OSCAR WILDE
A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT
A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
GEORGE HERBERT
Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. CLEMENT STONE
Never rub another mans rhubarb
JACK NICHOLSON
A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT
A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT
The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
WILLIAM MOYERS
Hope is the poore mans bread.
GEORGE HERBERT
A rich mans dream comes true only through a poor man.
KOWSALAPATHY
Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
BERNARD CORNWELL
If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Happiness is psychological. It's a mans greed that makes it physical.
BRANDON JAMES
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
GEORGE HERBERT
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
GEORGE HERBERT
An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT
If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.''-Sirius black...
J.K. ROWLING
What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
UNKNOWN
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE
A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
JON KRAKAUER
Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.
BRADLEY B. DALINA
A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...
GEORGES CLéMENCEAU
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
GEORGE HERBERT
A mans true experience offers a great deal of observing what is found to be of value
BOAZ AKUDE
Women are not attracted to men because they are good looking. Women are attracted to men because the...
NICK KINSELLA
To forget is Gods gift to man,to forgive is mans gift to God.
KOWSALAPATHY
You will never know of another mans heart ache by words alone
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL
I was Raised Round Junkies,Drunkies and real sluts Holding a poor mans rifle when there is beef not ...
NOBLE DA GENIUS
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES
'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.
JENSON BUTTON
It's mans duty to exhibit all the love he can possibly exhibit & exhaust on this plane,because after...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.
NEGRO FRIJOLES
In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE
I've been to 20 Burning Mans, and I've never seen a better one. The group that came this year was a ...
LARRY HARVEY
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of m...
MAYA ANGELOU
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I dont know who it is to blame. Men for treating women like nothing till they were the most revealin...
ANUJ SOMANY
I dont know who it is to blame. Men for treating women like nothing till they were the most revealin...
AL STADLER
Soldiers are the truly responsables for war,if they dont fight,its not gonna be the mans with a suit...
RAJA
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team mem...
TOM KRISTENSEN
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I r...
JACKY ICKX
To remove mans comforts he has grown so accustomed to is the true test of his reinvention, whatever ...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to...
CARROLL SHELBY
For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE
My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along t...
MARIO ANDRETTI
Le Mans runs on a longer track with 48 cars. At Daytona, with more cars and shorter run, drivers are...
TOMMY ARCHER
It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ
Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, ...
TOM KRISTENSEN
To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent

"Love the ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA
We cannot meet it the threat of dictatorship if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of...
VANNEVAR BUSH
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Ma...
MICHAEL TRUCCO
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and th...
JOHN DONNE
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in th...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
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NICHOLAS SPARKS
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER
As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the be...
BILL AUBERLEN
As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the be...
BILL AUBERLEN
I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself ...
TOM KRISTENSEN
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
the one thing about fashion is everyone wants that one moment when they look fabuloous and they feel...
VERONICA WEBB
Do you know how marriage was defined in ancient Greece? Noel said in a calmer tone. Its really simpl...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI
I am raising an army of House Bunny's that will be learning all the ancient secrets of a Good Wife. ...
NERISSA IRVING
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
The test of mans determination to leave a legacy behind, a fraction of his vision and thought, to di...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL
My brother recommended we ask Russ to join us. I had instructed him when he first joined the Viper L...
TOMMY ARCHER
I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world tit...
ALLAN MCNISH
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE
The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE
Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE
It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI

More Wilkie Collins

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...
WILKIE COLLINS
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...
WILKIE COLLINS
I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you...
WILKIE COLLINS
But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer b...
WILKIE COLLINS
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
WILKIE COLLINS
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enor...
WILKIE COLLINS
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
WILKIE COLLINS
I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
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The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding ...
WILKIE COLLINS
Whenever a woman tries to put you out of temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead....
WILKIE COLLINS
The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...
WILKIE COLLINS
You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money...
WILKIE COLLINS
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without so...
WILKIE COLLINS
It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers, that all the 'improbable events'...
WILKIE COLLINS
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
WILKIE COLLINS
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression un...
WILKIE COLLINS
I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...
WILKIE COLLINS
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILKIE COLLINS
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
WILKIE COLLINS
We had our breakfasts-whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must ha...
WILKIE COLLINS
I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept ...
WILKIE COLLINS
In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.
WILKIE COLLINS
The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a g...
WILKIE COLLINS
Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the sa...
WILKIE COLLINS
It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, th...
WILKIE COLLINS
At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...
WILKIE COLLINS
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
WILKIE COLLINS
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not fo...
WILKIE COLLINS
If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the...
WILKIE COLLINS
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used ...
WILKIE COLLINS
The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
WILKIE COLLINS
The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happin...
WILKIE COLLINS
Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand tog...
WILKIE COLLINS
In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such ...
WILKIE COLLINS
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among ...
WILKIE COLLINS
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow,...
WILKIE COLLINS
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectu...
WILKIE COLLINS
It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...
WILKIE COLLINS
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy ...
WILKIE COLLINS
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do...
WILKIE COLLINS
I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them m...
WILKIE COLLINS
Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.
WILKIE COLLINS
Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man u...
WILKIE COLLINS
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs....
WILKIE COLLINS
When two members of a family or two intimate friends are separated, and one goes abroad and one rema...
WILKIE COLLINS
Don't let me think.
WILKIE COLLINS
Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it ...
WILKIE COLLINS
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...
WILKIE COLLINS
I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
WILKIE COLLINS
There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit ov...
WILKIE COLLINS
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have stee...
WILKIE COLLINS
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
WILKIE COLLINS
I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scatt...
WILKIE COLLINS
Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.
WILKIE COLLINS
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to...
WILKIE COLLINS
Silence is safe.
WILKIE COLLINS
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
WILKIE COLLINS
I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far," says Mr. Superintendent, with his military vo...
WILKIE COLLINS
I have heard all I ever want to hear about the past," he said; "and I know what I most wanted to kno...
WILKIE COLLINS
He started up, and wrung my hand in quite an ecstasy of gratitude. How I do hate people who can only...
WILKIE COLLINS
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
WILKIE (WILLIAM) COLLINS
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
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It's an environmentally friendly solution for an unpleasant housekeeping task. It's not often that o...
ANN WILKIE
In covered lagoons, which are less efficient than fixed-film anaerobic digesters, the digestive bact...
ANN WILKIE
The key to our waste management system is a natural biological process called anaerobic digestion th...
ANN WILKIE
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...
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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?
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about ...
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I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne becau...
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JACKIE COLLINS
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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
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LILY COLLINS
I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships wit...
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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.
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Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica...
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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
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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...
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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
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...
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One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Alrea...
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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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And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness...
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I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
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I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain,...
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I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...
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Katniss. I remember about the bread.
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Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone st...
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Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
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At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
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Fire beats roses again.
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In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
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Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did fo...
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You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
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I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
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You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s...
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I had to do that. At least once.
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No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
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Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...
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All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he c...
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Stay with me.

Always.
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I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pl...
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I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
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No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
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You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't p...
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Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distr...
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I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
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Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
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What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with bo...
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Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
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There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to y...
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But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...
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At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
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She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
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I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
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They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
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That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
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Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
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I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
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I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
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Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
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Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
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Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
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I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
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There are much worse games to play.
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