Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.”

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

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303. “I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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314. “You’re a painter. You’re a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “Girl talk. That thing I’ve always been so bad at.”

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332. “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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333. “By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice. “I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.”

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334. “Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.”

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335. “Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.”

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336. “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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337. “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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338. “I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.”

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339. “All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent’s can’t give. More food.”

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340. “Why don’t they leave? Why do they stay to watch? And now I know. It’s because you have no choice.”

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341. “Five years later I still wake up screaming for? him to run.”

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342. “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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343. “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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344. “Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.”

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345. “They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”

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346. “Yeah, we wouldn’t want to lose our little Mockingjay when she’s finally begun to sing.”

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347. “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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348. “One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn’t mattered.”

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349. “I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane’s name on it...”

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350. “Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.”

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