Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Quotes

• “Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when i...”
• “One more time? For the audience?"he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the b...”
• “Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at himTell him t...”
• “It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are...”
• “I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do wit...”
• “To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the ...”
• “It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.""Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in t...”
• “And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected war...”
• “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 ...”
• “We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
• “You have a... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”
• “Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”
• “Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”
• “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
• “Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”
• “It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”
• “Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”
• “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
• “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
• “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
• “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
• “Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.”
• “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
• “I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.”
• “Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
• “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
• “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”
• “I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
• “Because...because...she came here with me.”
• “You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
• “No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.”
• “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
• “Katniss, the girl who was on fire!”
• “Stupid people are dangerous.”