And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.

— Suzanne Collins

And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.-Haymitch Abernathy

— Suzanne Collins

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.

— Suzanne Collins

And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morph lings, or Wires and Beetle. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Notarial. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

— Suzanne Collins

And then it hits me. They already have. They have killed her father in those wretched mines. Furthermore, they have sat by as she almost starved to death. Furthermore, they have chosen her as a tribute, then made her watch her sister fight to the death in the Games. She has been hurt far worse than I had at the age of twelve. And even that pales in comparison with Rue's life.

— Suzanne Collins

And when again it’s morning, they’ll wash away. Here it’s safe, here it’s warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm

— Suzanne Collins

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

— Suzanne Collins

Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.

— Suzanne Collins

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor." At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it." Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer." And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

— Suzanne Collins

Are you, are you Coming to the tree They strung up a man They say who murdered three? Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met at midnight In the hanging tree. Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where the dead man called out For his love to flee? Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met at midnight In the hanging tree. Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where I told you to run, So we'd both be free? Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met at midnight In the hanging tree. Are you, are you Coming to the tree Wear a necklace of rope, Side by side with me? Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met at midnight In the hanging tree.

— Suzanne Collins