Mockingjay Quotes - Page 2

• Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

  Suzanne Collins

  Life, Eye, Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.762, Scholastic UK

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's the things we love most that destroy us.

  Donald Sutherland

  President Snow

  "Fictional character: President Snow". "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - part 1", 2014.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Monsters, Despise

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.296, Scholastic

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dream, Rose, Dolphins

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.690, Scholastic UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Fire, Catching On

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.” “The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say. Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Get Better, Able

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.197, Scholastic Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Cat, Loss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.386, Scholastic Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stay with me. Always.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stay With Me, Peeta

  60 Copy quote

• I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Real, Medicine

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.321, Scholastic Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Struggle, Eye

  7 Copy quote

• Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

  Suzanne Collins

  Children, Sacrifice, Differences

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1455, Scholastic Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing Him, Able, Let Him Go

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.197, Scholastic Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Fear, Taken

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.786, Scholastic UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Bed, Pearls

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Better not to give in to it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Giving

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Trying, Arms, Let Me Go

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.373, Scholastic Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Comfort, Want, Ends

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.163, Scholastic Inc.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, President Snow, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Protect, Mockingjay Book

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.302, Scholastic Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• Katniss. I remember about the bread.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Bread, Remember

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.230, Scholastic Inc.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Ideas, Awareness

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.325, Scholastic Inc.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Envy, Want

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

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Katniss, Tea

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.271, Scholastic Inc.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

  Suzanne Collins

  Funny, Witty, President Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.82, Scholastic Inc.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source