Book Quotes by Suzanne Collins

What I need is a dandelion in the spring.
-Kateniss

Peeta: 'I don't want to forget.'

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together than it does to fall apart.

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.

Peeta: 'I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever.'

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun

Peeta: 'My nightmares are usally about losing you.'

Katniss: 'Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?'
Finnick: 'It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?'
Katniss: 'Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it.'
Finnick: 'Not if I keep looking at you.'

Gale: '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.'
Katniss: 'The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you.'

'I want to go home, Peeta,' I say plaintively, like a small child.
'You will. I promise,' he says, and bends over to give me a kiss.

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

Peeta: 'Because I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstance are. If you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District 12. You're my whole life.'

Peeta: 'I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.'