Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “I’m in pain. That’s the only way I get your attention.”

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

— Suzanne Collins

303. “I force myself to take deep, slow breaths, feeling quite certain the cameras are on my face. I can’t show weakness at this injury. Not if I want help. Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.”

— Suzanne Collins

304. “If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.”

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

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

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307. “I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it’s so bizarre, even for Finnick.”

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308. “I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.”

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

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310. “Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.”

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311. “It’s not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.”

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312. “This is what birds see. Only they’re free and safe. The very opposite of me.”

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313. “As if on cue, Haymitch falls off the stage, and they groan comically.”

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314. “I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.”

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315. “She didn’t fall off the bridge! The snow would look different where she was standing!” Maude Ivory insisted. “Lucy Gray, which is it?” “It’s a mystery, sweetheart. Just like me. That’s why it’s my song,” Lucy Gray answered.”

— Suzanne Collins

316. “That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family.”

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317. “And if even the most innocent among us turn to killers in the Hunger Games, what does that say? That our essential nature is violent,” Snow explained. “Self-destructive,” Dean Highbottom murmured.”

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318. “Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won’t seem sincere if I’m trying to slit his throat.”

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319. “These arrows are food, safety, and life itself now.”

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320. “Once I’m on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.”

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321. “A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

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322. “I buoni hanno un modo tutto loro di entrarmi nel cuore e metterci le radici. E non posso lasciare che lo faccia Peeta. Non dove stiamo andando.”

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323. “Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren’t responsible for your actions.”

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324. “I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you’re proposing an escape plan and the next...”

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325. “I’m glad now I have Peeta to clutch for balance, he is so steady, solid as a rock.”

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326. “I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there’s a knock on the door. Effie’s calling me to dinner. Good. I’m starving.”

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327. “The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.”

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328. “That’s our right,” Dr. Gaul countered. “No, it isn’t! I don’t care what you say. You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right.”

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329. “Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We’re very familiar with each other’s screams.”

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330. “The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?”

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331. “No viewer could turn away from the show now. From the Gamemakers’ point of view, this is the final word in entertainment.”

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332. “The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.”

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333. “The awful thing is that if i can forget they’re people, it will be no different at all.”

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334. “I don’t know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?”

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335. “On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.”

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336. “Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

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337. “You’re not going to die. I forbid it.”

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338. “But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.”

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339. “Shame isn’t a strong enough word for what I feel. “You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know,” Haymitch says.”

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340. “I’m filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.”

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341. “I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.”

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342. “Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead.”

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343. “But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she’ll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.”

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344. “I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s no going back.”

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345. “Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.”

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346. “I’ve spent so much time making sure I don’t underestimate my opponents that I’ve forgotten it’s just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.”

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347. “He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.”

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348. “We star crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory. We are unforgiving.”

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349. “As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You’re still angry.” “And you’re still not sorry,” I reply. “I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.”

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350. “If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.”

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