Rue Quotes

• I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Katniss, Pieces

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kill Me, Catch Me, Hard

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• But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Flower, Yellow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

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• What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue

  Mary Collyer

  Heart, Eye, Doe

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• Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

  Suzanne Collins

  World, All Things, Asks

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Rose, Golden

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54

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• There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Comforting, Dying

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

  Periander

  Wicked

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• Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Games, Three

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• How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

  Suzanne Collins

  Offering, Wind, Ends

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.56, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's eye shell, a bolt of lightning forged from the heart of a falling star, and the flower of the rue plant, herb of grace. The queen gave each of her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain of charms was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune.

  Kate Forsyth

  Horse, Queens, Stars

  Kate Forsyth (2007). “The Gypsy Crown: Chain of Charms 1”, Pan Australia

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• Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, Twists, Legs

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.143, Scholastic Inc.

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• She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

  David O. Selznick

  Good Day, Judgment, Instinct

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• I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sibling, Eye, Dark

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Long, Remembrance

  William Shakespeare (2009). “The Late Romances”, p.528, Bantam Classics

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• Each moss,
  Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
  Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
  This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost
  Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
  Which Nature's self would rue.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Self, Important, Gaps

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• The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

  Victor Hugo

  Wall, Doors, Agony

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• Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of an unhappy girl whose physical adornments, to her thinking, don't invite adequate attention. Heaven help the girl who gets the kind of attention she is seeking by being overpainted and underdressed! She will rue the day, of course, when she gets the kind of attention her flagrant invitation is giving.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Giving, Doubt

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

  John Adams

  Trust, Mean, Thinking

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 1: Life of John Adams”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This England never did, nor never shall,
  Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
  But when it first did help to wound itself.
  Now these her princes are come home again,
  Come the three corners of the world in arms,
  And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
  If England to itself do rest but true.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Home, Feet

  'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

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• One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Men, July

  Honore de Balzac (1901). “Cousin Betty”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

  Aldo Leopold

  Hunting, Wind, Fishing

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Father, Sunday

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare".

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• The only street I like is Rue Honore de Balzac, because 'Balzac' sound so gay, and I love my gays. I might like Parisians more if they named their streets only for gay icons, like Rue Liza Minnelli or Rue Bette Midler or, my favorite, Rue McClanahan.

  Joan Rivers

  Gay, Icons, Sound

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.100, Penguin

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