Suzanne Collins Quotes About Hunger Games Book
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Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.
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I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
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Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.
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My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.
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I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.
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I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
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Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
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Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?
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My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
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What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
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Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.
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You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
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Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
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Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.
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District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.
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You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
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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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Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?
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The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.” -Katniss Everdeen
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Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
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You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
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What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?
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Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
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Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.
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Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
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Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.
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What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?
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Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.
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To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.
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