Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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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352. “Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.”

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

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355. “I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.”

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356. “Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”

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

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358. “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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359. “Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

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360. “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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361. “Doors are for those who lack enemies.”

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362. “Haymitch shrugs. “Peeta has asked to be coached separately.”

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363. “The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.”

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

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365. “Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.”

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

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367. “Just remember, stealing’s punishable by death.”

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368. “They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.”

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369. “And so I’m stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.”

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370. “All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.”

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371. “The symbol of the revolution. The Mockingjay.”

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372. “The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don’t know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.”

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373. “It’s the Capitol I hate, for doing this to all of us.”

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374. “Go build me a mansion, build it so high, So I can see my true love go by. See him go by, love, see him go by. So I can see my true love go by.”

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375. “I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.”

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376. “But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.”

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377. “We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.”

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378. “What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?”

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379. “He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice.”

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380. “Haymitch said you’d take a lot of convincing.”

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381. “Plutarch rushes to reassure me. “Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie’s. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them.” “That’s one of the few things I won’t have to pretend, Plutarch,” I tell him.”

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382. “You shoot me and go home and live with it!” And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.”

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383. “Besides, it’s the first gift that’s always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn’t even have been here to do it if you hadn’t helped me then.”

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384. “Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.”

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385. “I’m not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.”

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386. “Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness,” Peeta points out. “Except possibly when it comes to you.”

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387. “All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.”

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388. “Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.”

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389. “He hasn’t accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.”

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390. “As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.”

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391. “My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers’ table. I hear shouts of alarm as people stumble back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig’s mouth and pins it to the wall behind it. Everyone stares at me in disbelief. “Thank you for your consideration,” I say. Then I give a slight bow and walk straight towards the exit without being dismissed.”

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392. “Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”

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393. “Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it’s just a nervous spasm.”

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394. “If you hit bottom, there’s a whole lot of people here to help you up.”

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395. “I want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you. -Peeta Mellark.”

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396. “You could do a lot worse.”

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397. “The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand. All my joints complain and my left leg has been asleep for so long that it takes several minutes of pacing to bring the feeling back into it.”

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398. “Sejanus. “My friend, your life has just begun!” And then Coriolanus was laughing; they both were. “So this isn’t our ruin?” “I’d call it our salvation.”

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399. “The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again.”

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400. “Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.”

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