1,468 Quotes by Suzanne Collins

Her name’s Prim. She’s just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her – ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous...

The Hunger Games were an opportunity for wealth and a kind of glory not seen elsewhere. Of course, the people of 2 swallowed the Capitol’s propaganda more easily than the rest of us. Embraced their ways. But for all that, at the end of the day, they were still slaves.

Five years later I still wake up screaming for? him to run.

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That’s how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it’s not a mistake to go on living. It’s better than any medicine.

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads ‘mentally disoriented’ around and around my wrist.

Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other’s key.

I’m running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I’ll be worthless.