Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins

"Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear."
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"Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear."
Suzanne Collins Mockingjay
"If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war."
Suzanne Collins
"Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times."
Suzanne Collins
"If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence."
Suzanne Collins
"I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age."
Suzanne Collins
"One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories."
Suzanne Collins
"Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls."
Suzanne Collins
"You call that a kiss?"
Suzanne Collins
"Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says."
Suzanne Collins
"“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”"
Suzanne Collins Catching Fire
"“She's not here, I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim. At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. Get out! He dodges the pillow I throw at him. Go away! There's nothing left for you here! I start to shake, furious with him. She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again! I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.”"
Suzanne Collins Mockingjay
"What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them."
Suzanne Collins The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
"There is a point to everything or nothing at all, depending on your worldview."
Suzanne Collins The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
"Stay with me. Always."
Suzanne Collins Mockingjay
"Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena."
Suzanne Collins Mockingjay
"Greed and corruption isn't in the world. It's in the people"."
Suzanne Collins
"Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare? I say. I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror, he says. You should wake me, I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you, he says. I'm okay once I realize you're here."
Suzanne Collins Catching Fire
"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 with me' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt."
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
"You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?"
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
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