Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

— Suzanne Collins

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2. “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”

— Suzanne Collins

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3. “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

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4. “Some walks you have to take alone.”

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5. “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”

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6. “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”

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7. “Stupid people are dangerous.”

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8. “Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”

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9. “Let the Hunger Games Begin!”

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10. “Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.”

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11. “Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.”

— Suzanne Collins

12. “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”

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13. “That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I’m free to act as desperately as I wish.”

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14. “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”

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15. “Highly unlikely but not impossible.”

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16. “Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.”

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17. “Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

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18. “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

— Suzanne Collins

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19. “There’s no going back. So we might as well get on with things.”

— Suzanne Collins

20. “Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

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21. “You’ve got to go through it to get to the end of it.”

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22. “Thank you for you consideration.”

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23. “Okay, maybe I don’t go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.”

— Suzanne Collins

24. “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”

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25. “They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”

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26. “Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”

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27. “The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand.”

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28. “The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol’s plans. The symbol of the rebellion.”

— Suzanne Collins

29. “Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”

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30. “The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.”

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31. “Here’s some advice. Stay alive.”

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32. “If I’m going to die, I want to still be me.”

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33. “I miss him so badly it hurts.”

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34. “This is no place for a girl on fire.”

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35. “Stay with me. Always.”

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36. “Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.”

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37. “Remember. I’m still betting on you girl on fire.”

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38. “The star-crossed lovers.”

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39. “Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.”

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40. “I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”

— Suzanne Collins

41. “My spirit. This is a new thought. I’m not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I’m a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It’s not as if I’m never friendly. Okay, maybe I don’t go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.”

— Suzanne Collins

42. “My nightmares are usually about losing you. I’m okay once I realize you’re here.”

— Suzanne Collins

43. “And we must fight back! President Snow says he’s sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”

— Suzanne Collins

44. “How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.”

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45. “May the odds be ever in your favour.”

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46. “So it’s you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”

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47. “And don’t you let your guard down for a second because you think anything’s inevitable.”

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48. “There are much worse games to play.”

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49. “Isn’t it strange that I know you’d risk your life to save mine, but I don’t even know what your favorite color is?”

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50. “Mutually counting on each other, watching each other’s backs, forcing each other to be brave.”

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