They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
— Suzanne CollinsI search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. 'Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other.'He's right. We did.The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.
— Suzanne CollinsKatniss. I remember about the bread.
— Suzanne CollinsSometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
— Suzanne CollinsSlowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.
— Suzanne CollinsFrankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
— Suzanne CollinsI think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me.Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips.
— Suzanne CollinsBut more words tumble out. '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.'Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
— Suzanne CollinsStay with me.Always.
— Suzanne CollinsBecause it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.
— Suzanne Collins