Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.”

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103. “Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.”

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

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

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106. “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.”

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

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “Fly you high.”

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111. “Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion.”

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

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113. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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118. “Remember, heads high. Smiles. They’re going to love you!”

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119. “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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120. “I had to do that. At least once.”

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121. “I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it’s mostly for their own good.”

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122. “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.”

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

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

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

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127. “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.”

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128. “The strain of being a full-fledged adult every day had grown tiresome.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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138. “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.”

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139. “Crying is not an option.”

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140. “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.”

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

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142. “Suddenly Gregor smiled. “Hey, Boots,” he said. “Hey. You can finally say my name.”

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143. “Whatever it takes to break you.”

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144. “It starts at midnight.”

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

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146. “Because I can’t handle the nightmares. Not without you.”

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147. “When one of ours is hit, we hit back twice as hard. The Hunger Games will go forward, with more energy and commitment than ever before, as we add your name to the long list of the innocent who died defending a righteous and just land.”

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148. “Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour.”

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149. “But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.”

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150. “Panem et Circenses.”

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