Suzanne Collins Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• It's a long shot, it's 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. "Don't let him take you from me." Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging his head. "No. I don't 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.

  Suzanne Collins

  Suicide, Pain, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

• We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Justice, Hunger

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.

• I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

  Suzanne Collins

  Couple, Hate, Fighting

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

• I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Harm, I Can

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.343, Scholastic Inc.

• And we must fight back! President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Fire, President Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

• The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Fighting, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.653, Scholastic Inc.

• He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Fighting, Boys

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

• The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Fighting, Winning

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

• I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Katniss, Watches

• It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, People, Sandwiches

• Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Firsts, Instinct

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.492, Scholastic Inc.

• aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Evil, Choices

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

• its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Seems, Insurmountable

• One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one channel, there's a group of young people competing for I don't even know; and on the next, there's a group of young people fighting in an actual war. I was really tired, and the lines between these stories started to blur in a very unsettling way. That's the moment when Katniss's story came to me.

  Suzanne Collins

  War, Lying, Tired

  "A Killer Story: An Interview with Suzanne Collins, Author of ‘The Hunger Games’ | Under Cover". Interview with Rick Margolis, www.slj.com. September 1, 2008.

• When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Years, Daggers

  "I’m More Like Plutarch than Katniss: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence". Interview with Lev Grossman, entertainment.time.com. November 21, 2013.

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