Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “I don’t care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out.”

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252. “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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253. “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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254. “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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255. “Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.”

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256. “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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257. “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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258. “And it takes so much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.”

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259. “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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260. “My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.”

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261. “But don’t worry; as I’ve been saying – and this has been very clever of me, I’m sure you’ll agree – if you put enough pressure on coal, it’ll turn to pearls!”

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262. “We all did things we’re not proud of.” “You didn’t,” he said. “Didn’t I?” Tigris spoke with an uncharacteristic bitterness. “We all did. Maybe you were too little to remember. Maybe you didn’t know how bad it really was.” “How can you say that? That’s all I remember,” he shot back. “Then be kind, Coryo,” she snapped. “And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.”

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263. “You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.”

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264. “I’m almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that’s when the rest of the parachutes go off.”

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265. “Flight is essential, but I can’t let my fear show.”

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266. “Well you are a piece of work aren’t you?”

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267. “Tick tock, this is a clock.”

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268. “Her name’s Prim. She’s just twelve. And I love her more than anything.”

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269. “That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.”

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270. “She has no idea. The effect she can have.”

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271. “Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”

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272. “Then make one,” says Gale. “Even a weak bow is better than no bow at all.”

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273. “I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.”

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274. “There’s a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don’t give up on him.”

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275. “Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.”

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276. “You’re hideous, you know that, right?”

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277. “The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

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278. “One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I’ll never see food again. And I said, “I won’t unless I bring it home.” That shut her up.”

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279. “Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.”

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280. “Run like the river.”

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281. “Fire beats roses again.”

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282. “It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.”

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283. “In other words, I step out of line and we’re all dead.”

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284. “I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen.”

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285. “I’m not a very fancy person. I’ve been a writer a long time, and right now ‘The Hunger Games’ is getting a lot of focus. It’ll pass. The focus will be on something else. It’ll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.”

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286. “People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.”

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287. “I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she’s a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.”

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288. “And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone’s throw from the biggest idiot in the games.”

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289. “That even if they were separated by space, they were together in time.”

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290. “I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I’m not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol’s design, not mine.”

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291. “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.”

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292. “Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.”

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293. “And he wanted to keep her. Safe and close at hand. Admired and admiring. Devoted. And entirely, unequivocally his.”

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294. “I’m in pain. That’s the only way I get your attention.”

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295. “And suddenly, it’s as if there’s no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible.”

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296. “Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”

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297. “I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn’t be fair on my part.”

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298. “You can’t take my charm. You can’t take my humor.”

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299. “Girl talk. That thing I’ve always been so bad at.”

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300. “And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her.”

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