Quotes by Suzanne Collins

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, So now that youve got me, what are you going to do with me? I turn into him. Put you somewhere you cant get hurt.”

“But I dont know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”

“Because...because...she came here with me.”

“And here, finally here in this place, in these circumstances, I will really have to kill him. And Snow will win. Hot, bitter hatred courses through me. Snow has won too much already today. Its a long shot, its suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. Dont let him take you from me. Peetas panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. No. I dont want to... I clench his hands to the point of pain. Stay with me. His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. Always, he murmurs.”

“Not like this. He wanted it to be real.”

“Sometimes when Im 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.”

“I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.”

“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”

“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 Im the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”

“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 gazing at me forever.”

“Having an eye for beauty isnt the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.”

“Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”