What I need is a dandelion in the spring.
-Kateniss
Peeta: "I don't want to forget."
Suzanne Collins in The Hunger GamesIt takes ten times as long to put yourself back together than it does to fall apart.
BreakupSuzanne Collins in The Hunger Games - Catching FireYou'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 in The Hunger GamesPeeta: "I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever."
MomentsSuzanne Collins in The Hunger Games - Catching FireI am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun
Suzanne Collins in The Hunger GamesPeeta: "My nightmares are usally about losing you."
Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games - Catching FireKatniss: "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."
Suzanne Collins in The Hunger GamesPeeta: "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."
Suzanne Collins in The Hunger GamesPeeta: "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you."
Love declerationsSuzanne Collins in The Hunger Games