Top 500 Suzanne Collins Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”

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402. “At the word trident, it’s as if the old Finnick surfaces.”

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403. “Alma Coin, the president of 13, who just watches. She’s fifty or so, with gray hair that falls in an unbroken sheet to her shoulders. I’m somewhat fascinated by her hair, since it’s so uniform, so without a flaw, a wisp, even a split end. Her eyes are gray, but not like those of people from the Seam. They’re very pale, as if almost all the color has been sucked out of them. The color of slush that you wish would melt away.”

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404. “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.”

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405. “I clench his hands to the point of pain. “Stay with me.” His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. “Always,” he murmurs.”

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406. “I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.”

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407. “But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.”

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408. “Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.”

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409. “Like bait?” I say to the ceiling. “Like how they’ll use Annie for bait, Finnick?” I can hear him weeping but I don’t care. They probably won’t even bother to question her, she’s so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There’s a good chance I’m headed in the same direction. Maybe I’m already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough. “I wish she was dead,” he says. “I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”

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410. “If you’d been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?”

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411. “It’s much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

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412. “Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I’m human. It was less painful being strangled.”

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413. “Any last words of advice?” Peeta asks. “Stay alive,” Haymitch says gruffly. That’s.”

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414. “Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.”

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415. “You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.”

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416. “Fire is catching!”

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417. “Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate.”

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418. “Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. – Katniss -.”

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419. “Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.”

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420. “Glimmer, I hear someone call her – ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous...”

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421. “My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They’re the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.”

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422. “He never lets go of Annie’s hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.”

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423. “I swear if you cry, I’ll kill you here and now.? Cinna just smiles. ‘Had a damp morning?’ ‘You could wring me out.’ I reply.”

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424. “Coriolanus felt sure he’d spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.”

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425. “In his hands, I am again a mockingjay.”

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426. “Dawn comes before sleep does.”

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427. “I’m so tired, Katniss.”

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428. “The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That’s how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.”

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429. “And to us, we’re more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”

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430. “Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He’ll love that.”

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431. “I notice her blouse has pulled out of her skirt in the back again and force myself to stay calm. “Tuck your tail in, little duck,” I say, smoothing the blouse back in place. Prim giggles and give me a small “Quack.” “Quack yourself,” I say with a light laugh. The kind only Prim can draw out of me.”

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432. “It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.”

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433. “How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?”

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434. “Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The.”

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435. “Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that’s been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.”

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436. “To be honest, I’m not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.”

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437. “Girl talk. That thing I’ve always been so bad at. Opinions on clothes, hair, makeup.”

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438. “Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they’ll do is bury me underground anyway.”

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439. “The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other’s faces with bright pink swirls.”

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440. “Despite what I feel for Peeta, this is when I accept deep down that he’ll never come back to me. Or i’ll never go back to him. I’ll die for my trouble. And he’ll die insane and hating me.”

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441. “Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.”

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442. “And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn’t think nudity is the last word in fashion.”

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443. “I’ll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I’m afraid it could be taken away.”

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444. “Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch.”

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445. “I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I’m so grateful that he’s here, not dead by the stream as I’d thought. So glad I don’t have to face Cato alone.”

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446. “At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.”

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447. “Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I’ve never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.”

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448. “Neste momento tens tanto encanto como uma lesma morta.”

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449. “He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”

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450. “Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

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