Suzanne Collins Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Thinking, Leaving

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.343, Scholastic Inc.

• And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Boys, Talking

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

• So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

• My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Home, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

• If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Waiting, Parent

  "Suzanne Collins's War Stories for Kids". Interview with Susan Dominus, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 2011.

• Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stars, Home, Heart

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.261, Scholastic Inc.

• Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Thinking, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

• hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Katniss, House

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

• "Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How you acted." "Not all of it," I say, tightly holding onto my flowers. "Then how much? No, forget that. I guess the real question is what's going to be left when we get home?" he says. "I don't know. The closer we get to District Twelve, the more confused I get," I say. He waits, for further explanation, but none's forthcoming. "Well, let me know when you work it out," he says, and the pain in his voice is palpable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Confused, Real

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

• Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Two, Mutts

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.446, Scholastic Inc.

• One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Home, Said

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

• I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Missing, Remember

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

• And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hurt, Home, Kids

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

• It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Talking, Topics

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

• I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Mind, Pay

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

• She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

  Suzanne Collins

  Children, Father, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

• Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren’t for me. “With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.

  Suzanne Collins

  Baby, Spring, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.312, Scholastic Inc.

• So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouragingly. “I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning…won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because…because…she came here with me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Winning, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.125, Scholastic Inc.

• A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and she stared fixatedly at a small stain on the tablecloth. Gregor remembered seeing her that way so many nights after his dad had disappeared. He didn't know what to say. He didn't want to scare her or shock her or ever give her any more pain. So, he stepped into the light of the kitchen and said the one thing he knew she wanted to hear most in the world. "Hey, Mom. We're home.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mom, Mother, Pain

• I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. And I remember when you... you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said... "Who knows The Valley Song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I... I watched you going home every day...

  Suzanne Collins

  Song, Teacher, Home

  "The Hunger Games". m.imdb.com. 2012.

• The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rain, Tired, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

• If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Pay, Able

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

• if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Winning, Dies

• My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Home, Names

• The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Excellent, Novel

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