Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay.”

— Suzanne Collins

102. “She could fly around District 12 all she liked, but she and her mockingjays could never harm him again.”

— Suzanne Collins

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

— Suzanne Collins

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

— Suzanne Collins

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

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106. “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.”

— Suzanne Collins

107. “El Fuego se propaga, y si nosotros ardemos tu arderas con nosotros.”

— Suzanne Collins

108. “Johanna Mason is naked again and oiling her skin down for a wrestling lesson.”

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109. “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.”

— Suzanne Collins

110. “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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111. “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.”

— Suzanne Collins

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

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113. “How about my head?” teased Lucy Gray. Coriolanus leaned over and kissed her. “Okay, that’s a start.”

— Suzanne Collins

114. “Peeta: You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you. Finnick: Oh, Peeta. Don’t make me sorry I restarted your heart.”

— Suzanne Collins

115. “I don’t write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.”

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116. “Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else’s arms have made me feel this safe.”

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117. “It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.”

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118. “The anguish I always feel when she’s in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”

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119. “I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.”

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120. “My sleep wasn’t peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.”

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121. “Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it’s futile, she can’t be saved.”

— Suzanne Collins

122. “Fly you high.”

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123. “Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.”

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124. “If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.”

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125. “So that’s who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.”

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126. “I had to do that. At least once.”

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127. “It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”

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128. “But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”

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129. “I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can’t help him.”

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130. “It’s as if I’m Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee’s trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”

— Suzanne Collins

131. “In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.”

— Suzanne Collins

132. “Lucky thing were allies, right? -Finnick Odair.”

— Suzanne Collins

133. “If there’s a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who’s trapped underground, I don’t know it.”

— Suzanne Collins

134. “One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care,” said Dean Highbottom. “Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake. That sort of hubris almost finished us off in the war.”

— Suzanne Collins

135. “Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”

— Suzanne Collins

136. “Courage in battle was often necessary because of someone else’s poor planning.”

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137. “Trust is important. I think it’s more important than love. I mean, I love all kinds of things I don’t trust. Thunderstorms... white liquor... snakes. Sometimes I think I love them because I can’t trust them, and how mixed up is that?”

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138. “Even in war there should be lines you didn’t cross.”

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139. “I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”

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140. “Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”

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141. “Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, here is the place where I love you.”

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142. “It’s strange to be so physically close to someone who’s so distant.”

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143. “Crying is not an option.”

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144. “I really can’t think about kissing when I’ve got a rebellion to incite.”

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145. “In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It’s jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.”

— Suzanne Collins

146. “I’m planning to,” said Sejanus. “I’m planning to build a whole new beautiful life here. One where, in my own small way, I can make the world a better place.”

— Suzanne Collins

147. “Oh, the fun we two have together.”

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148. “It starts at midnight.”

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149. “I’m going to be the Mockingjay.”

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150. “All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent’s can’t give. More food.”

— Suzanne Collins