Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Because I’m selfish. I’m a coward. I’m the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn’t follow to suffer and die.”

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202. “I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”

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203. “What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.”

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204. “It’s the first gift that’s always the hardest to pay back.”

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

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206. “The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.”

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207. “I try to forgive her for my father’s sake. But to be honest, I’m not the forgiving type.”

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208. “Sick and disoriented, I’m able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.”

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209. “Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.”

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210. “Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.”

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211. “There’s no point in comforting words, in telling her she’ll be all right. She’s no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it’s me who’s dying instead of Rue.”

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212. “We both know they have to have a victor. It can only be one of us. Please, take it. For me.”

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213. “My mother says healers are born, not made.”

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214. “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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215. “But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.”

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216. “Wars are won by heads not hearts.”

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217. “Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”

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218. “I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.”

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219. “This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other’s key.”

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220. “It crosses my mind that Cinna’s calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”

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

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222. “The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.”

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223. “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”

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224. “Listen up. You’re in trouble. Word is the Capitol’s furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can’t stand is being laughed at and they’re the joke of Panem.”

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225. “Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.”

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226. “Tuck in your tail, little duck.”

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227. “Please feel free to take this personally.”

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228. “Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”

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229. “In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. Yous see an elderly person you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival.”

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230. “Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

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231. “Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.”

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232. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”

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233. “You don’t destroy what you want to acquire in the future.”

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234. “The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to folow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them.”

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235. “I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there’s nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.”

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236. “At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

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237. “Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls!”

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238. “But there’s food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.”

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239. “They’re already taking my future! They can’t have the things that mattered to me in the past!”

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240. “Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other’s survival means our own death. How do you side step that?”

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241. “I look up into those blue eyes that no amount of dramatic makeup can make truly deadly and remember how, just a year ago, I was prepared to kill him. Convinced he was trying to kill me. Now everything is reversed. I’m determined to keep him alive, knowing the cost will be my own life, but the part of me that is not so brave as I could wish is glad that it’s Peeta, not Haymitch, beside me. Our hands find each other without further discussion. Of course we will go into this as one.”

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242. “It’s time for the drawing. Effie Trinket says as she always does, “Ladies first!” and crosses to the glass ball with the girls’ names. She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath and then you can hear a pin drop, and I’m feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it’s not me, that it’s not me, that it’s not me.”

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243. “My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. ‘What’s impressed you most since you arrived here?’ I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.”

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244. “Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they’re as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they’re among our best customers.”

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245. “Maybe I’ll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.? Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.”

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246. “I don’t care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out.”

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247. “Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you – the tributes of District Twelve!”

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248. “Katniss, the girl who was on fire!”

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249. “For a moment he laughed, forgetting where they were, how depressing the backdrop. For a moment there was just her smile, the musical cadence of her voice, and the hint of flirtation. Then the world exploded.”

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250. “Coriolanus could see that Festus was falling for her. Did you tell your best friend his crush was a cannibal? Never a rule book when you needed one.”

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