Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “So well intended, and yet so insulting. – Gale Hawthorne.”

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152. “I have been keeping track of the boy with the bread.”

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153. “My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.”

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154. “Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.”

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155. “Ashes billow up around me, and I pull the hem of my shirt up over my mouth. It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.”

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156. “Real or not real?”

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157. “It’s a lot easier to lose your head than to keep it.”

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158. “Everybody seems to know my secrets before I know them myself.”

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159. “He frosted under heavy guard.”

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160. “The air’s warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.”

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161. “Real or not real? I am on fire.”

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162. “My heart is beating so fast and fierce I hardly hear them.”

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163. “The snow’s red and littered with undersized body parts. Many of the children die immediately, but others lie in agony on the ground. Some stagger around mutely, staring at the remaining silver parachutes in their hands, as if they still might have something precious inside. I can tell the Peacekeepers didn’t know this was coming by the way they are yanking away the barricades, making a path to the children.”

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164. “The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I’m the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”

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165. “And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”

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166. “The Hunger Games were an opportunity for wealth and a kind of glory not seen elsewhere. Of course, the people of 2 swallowed the Capitol’s propaganda more easily than the rest of us. Embraced their ways. But for all that, at the end of the day, they were still slaves.”

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167. “And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.”

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168. “Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash.”

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169. “You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It’s a lot to take in all at once, but it’s essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight.”

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170. “I don’t want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I’ll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.”

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171. “Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it’s breath Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate.”

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172. “We control it,” he said quietly. “If the war’s impossible to end, then we have to control it indefinitely. Just as we do now. With the Peacekeepers occupying the districts, with strict laws, and with reminders of who’s in charge, like the Hunger Games. In any scenario, it’s preferable to have the upper hand, to be the victor rather than the defeated.”

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

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174. “If I’m going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I’ll be able to wash all the damage done by the tears from my face. But no tears come. I’m too tired or too numb to cry. The only thing I feel is a desire to be somewhere else. So I let the train rock me into oblivion.”

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175. “My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.”

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176. “What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?”

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177. “Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.”

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178. “When I break into the clearing, she’s on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.”

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179. “Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”

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180. “There is a point to everything or nothing at all, depending on your worldview.”

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181. “How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?”

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182. “It’s Lucy Gray and I’m not really from Twelve,” she said. “My people are Covey. Musicians by trade. We just took a wrong turn one day and were obliged to stay.”

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183. “Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don’t care. I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good.”

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184. “Something inside me shuts down and I’m too numb to feel anything. It’s like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”

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185. “Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don’t want to miss any of them.”

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186. “So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?” I tell him, “Real.”

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187. “I want the audience to recognize you when you’re in the arena,” says Cinna dreamily. “Katniss, the girl who was on fire.”

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

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189. “You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”

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190. “Don’t. Don’t let’s pretend when there’s no one around.”

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191. “But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.”

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192. “Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness.”

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193. “No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.”

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194. “Our lives aren’t just measured in years. They’re measured in the lives of people we touch around us.”

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195. “In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.”

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196. “Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

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197. “Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?”

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198. “I’m more than just a piece in their Games.”

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199. “Before need, before love, came trust.”

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200. “Sometimes when I’m alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”

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