Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.”

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

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53. “Snow lands on top.”

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54. “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”

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55. “Whatever the opposite of fine is, that’s what I am.”

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56. “The more you can distract yourself, the better.”

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57. “Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.”

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58. “Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”

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

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

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

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62. “I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.”

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63. “You’re mine and I’m yours. It’s written in the stars.”

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64. “Well, as they said, it’s not over until the mockingjay sings.”

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65. “Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.”

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66. “I just don’t want them to change me, if I’m going to die I still want to be me.”

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67. “I’m not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.”

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68. “I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.”

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69. “If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.”

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70. “Okay, listen to me, you’re stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that’s all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.”

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71. “Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”

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72. “Courage only counts when you can count.”

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73. “Make sure they remember you.”

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74. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”

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75. “As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”

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76. “Yes, it’s your fault I’m alive.”

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77. “But better off sad than dead.”

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78. “No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that’s the only way to convince her you love her.”

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79. “Panem et Circenses” translates into ‘Bread and Circuses.’ The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”

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80. “While you live, the revolution lives.”

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81. “Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.”

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82. “People aren’t so bad, really,” she said. “It’s what the world does to them.”

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83. “Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.”

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84. “Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their broken nails, the lines of their sunken faces. But today the black cinder streets are empty. Shutters on the squat gray houses are closed. The reaping isn’t until two. May as well sleep in. If you can. Our.”

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85. “They can’t hurt me. I’m not like the rest of you. There’s no one left I love.”

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86. “If you die and i live there’s no life for me back in District 12. You’re my whole life. I would never be happy again.”

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87. “No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

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88. “Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.”

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89. “I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.”

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90. “Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay.”

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91. “I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”

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92. “So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”

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93. “But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

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94. “You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”

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95. “I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I’m even having a heart attack, but it doesn’t seem worth mentioning.”

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96. “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.”

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97. “A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.”

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98. “If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.”

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99. “Finnick Odair is something of a living legend in Panem. Since he won the Sixty-fifth Hunger Games when he was only fourteen, he’s still one of the youngest victors. Being from District 4, he was a Career, so the odds were already in his favour, but what no trainer could claim to have given him was his extraordinary beauty. Tall, athletic, with golden skin and bronze-coloured hair and those incredible eyes.”

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100. “Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”

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