The Hunger Games Quotes

“It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant”
― Suzanne Collins

“Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with Peeta before I remember that I'm having nothing more to do with him. I'm surprised to see the hardness in his eyes. He generally seems so mild.
'That's very funny,' says Peeta. Suddenly, he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. 'Only not to us.'
Haymitch considers this a moment, then punches Peeta in the jaw, knocking him from his chair. When he turns back to reach for the spirits, I drive my knife into the table between his hand and the bottle, barely missing his fingers. I brace myself to deflect his hit, but it doesn't come. Instead, he sits back and squints at us.
'Well, what's this?' says Haymitch. 'Did I actually get a pair of fighters this year?”
― Suzanne Collins

“I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this angle.'
'Where is Haymitch, anyway? Isn't he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?' says Peeta.
'With all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,' I say.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I hear Peeta's voice in my head.

She has no idea. The effect she can have.

Obviously meant to demean me. Right? But a tiny part of me wonders if this was a compliment. That he meant I was appealing in some way. It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us”
― Peeta Mellark

“The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell…well she never kissed me like that…I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her then…I guess it’s Katniss’ problem. Who to choose…Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem”
― Suzanne Collins

“Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in any case. Because...she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark”
― Suzanne Collins

“Crying is not an option.”
― Suzanne Collins

“the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The odds are never in our favour.”
― Suzzane Collins

“Why...do you find this...distracting?”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.”
― Suzanne Collins

“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, Catching Fire

“I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.”
― Suzanne Collions The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Finnick Odair Quote

“Smiling is mostly about smiling more.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Listen, Louella, if you let them treat you like an animal, they will. So don’t let them.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She crept up on me.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Good-bye, Maysilee Donner, who I loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. Not as a sweetheart or even a friend. A sister, I'd said. But what is that exactly? I think about our journey - everything from sniping with her in those early days after the reaping to battling those pink birds. I guess that's my answer. A sister is someone you fight with and fight for. Tooth and nail.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping