The best 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."

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Canaan? Is your mom religious or just super into towns of Connecticut?

It's actually an Algonquin word, "Connecticut". Land of the long tidal river.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Connecticut - and that's pretty much the same thing.

If anybody even tries to whisper the word "diet," I'm like, "You can go f- yourself!"

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put pants on.

I tell my friends to slap me if they ever think I'm getting full of myself.

Acting is stupid. Everybody's like, "How can you remain with a level head?" And I'm like, "Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I'm making movies."

Zach Galifianakis: "You played in a movie called The Hunger Games."
Jennifer Lawrence: "Yeah. Isn't that your life story?"
Zach Galifianakis: "You shouldn't say that. That's off-putting."
Jennifer Lawrence: "You should be off-pudding. Because you're fat."

I'm a horrible dancer! I'm like a dad at prom. I look like Gumby getting electrocuted.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Life is full of small, perfect moments.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

If you live to be hundred, I hope i live to be hundred minus one day. So I never have to live without you.

How does President Obama like his coffee? Like himself? Weak?

Zach Galifianakis: "You have a hit pop song called 'Starving'."
Hailee Steinfeld: "Yes I do. Let me guess, you can't relate?"

Zach Galifianakis: "What is it like to be the last black president?"
Barack Obama: "Seriously? What's it like for this to be the last time, you'll ever talk to a president?"

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.