Quotes about katniss
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.
Suzanne Collins -
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other."He's right. We did.The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.
Suzanne Collins -
I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.Finally, my wings begin to falter, I lose height, and gravity pulls me into a foamy sea the color of Finnick's eyes. I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. When I am adrift and unable to navigate, that's when they come. The dead.The ones I loved fly
Suzanne Collins -
I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me.Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol has just bombed a hospital full of unarmed men, women and children. There will be no survivors." The shock I've been feeling begins to give way to fury. "I want to tell people that if you think for one second the Capitol will treat us fairly if there's a cease-fire, you're deluding yourself. Because you know who they are and what they do." My hands go out automatically, as if to indicate the whole
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Only.. I want to do die as myself
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
Stay with me.Always.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway.""To make sure Katniss is still here?" asks Peeta."Something like that,"..."That was funny, what Tigris said. About no one knowing what to do with her.""Well, WE never have,"..."She loves you, you know," says Peeta. "She as good as told me after they whipped you.""Don't believe it,"Gale answers. "The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell...well she never kissed me like that.""It was just part of the show," Peeta tells him, although
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?”“Oh, let’s see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red plaid dress and your hair... it was in two braids instead of one. My father pointed you out when we were waiting to line up,” Peeta says.“Your father? Why?” I ask.“He said, ‘See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner,’” Peeta says.“What? You’re making that up!” I exclai
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
You have a... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
You love me. Real or not real?"I tell him, "Real.
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 - Catching Fire
The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta... in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I
Suzanne Collins -
Lunch makes me feel a bit better.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask."Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
I had to do that. At least once.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
Katniss. I remember about the bread.
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile."Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light."No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in.""And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena.""Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity,"
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when it's morning again, they'll wash awayHere it's safe, here it's warmHere the daisies guard you from every harmHere your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them trueHere is the place where I love you.
Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.”“The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say.Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.