Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “She didn’t fall off the bridge! The snow would look different where she was standing!” Maude Ivory insisted. “Lucy Gray, which is it?” “It’s a mystery, sweetheart. Just like me. That’s why it’s my song,” Lucy Gray answered.”

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452. “Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.”

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453. “His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.”

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454. “What a welcome sight. You know, it’s funny how often people forget that presidents need to eat, too,” President.”

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455. “He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.”

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456. “Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

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457. “No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.”

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458. “Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”

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459. “Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.”

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460. “I’m not prepared for Rue’s family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.”

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461. “They recognize me. Of course they recognize me. My face is uncovered and I’m standing here outside of District 12 pointing an arrow at them. Who else would I be?”

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462. “You call that a kiss?”

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463. “The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.”

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464. “Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.”

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

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466. “At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.”

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467. “Oh, well. At least my blood is flowing.”

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468. “That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.”

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469. “I do think you’re mad and I’ll still go with you.”

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470. “Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.”

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471. “I’m not good at talking about myself.”

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472. “We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared.”

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473. “It’s lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.”

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474. “I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.”

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475. “Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion, though.”

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476. “I’m on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.”

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477. “Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.”

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478. “I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.”

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479. “Did you indeed?” said Ripred. “It seems like only yesterday you were a baby bouncing on your grandpa’s knee. And now you’re starting wars. They grow up so fast.”

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480. “I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.”

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481. “You know what I miss? More than anything? Coffee. – Plutarch Heavensbee.”

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482. “Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it’s cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.”

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483. “I start to crack at four hundred to one.”

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484. “Beauty that arose out of pain.”

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485. “Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.”

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486. “You know, you’re kind of squeamish for such a lethal person.”

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487. “It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.”

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488. “I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.”

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489. “A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she’s quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.”

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490. “Remembering from last year how Haymitch’s gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You’ll get food.”

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491. “But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”

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492. “What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?”

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493. “They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she’s lost the will to live.”

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494. “In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.”

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495. “If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”

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496. “Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.”

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497. “Peeta. How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn’t.”

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498. “Coriolanus thought about what it had felt like to be in the arena, where there were no rules, no laws, no consequences to one’s actions. The needle of his moral compass had swung madly without direction. Fueled by the terror of being prey, how quickly he himself had become a predator, with no reservations about smashing Bobbin to death. He’d transformed, all right, but not into anything he was proud of.”

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499. “I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.”

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500. “I must have loved you a lot.”

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