1,468 Quotes by Suzanne Collins

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don’t hurt anyone but myself.

Maybe he’s too pretty, or maybe he’s too easy to get, or maybe it’s really that he’d just be too easy to lose.

Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash.

Remember, heads high. Smiles. They’re going to love you!

Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. “you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first.” Of course I do. Gale.

Because it doesn’t matter anymore, and because I’m so desperately lonely I can’t stand it.

Maybe I’ll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.? Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.