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Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 9,884,374 ratings, 4.35 average rating, 260,878 reviews The Hunger Games Quotes Showing 181-210 of 1,199 “I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: rue, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games 58 likes Like “Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 58 likes Like “I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands in front of me. A gift form a sponsor. But why now? I’ve been in fairly good shape with supplies. Maybe Haymitch’s noticed my despondency and is trying to cheer me up a bit. Or could it be something to help my ear? I open the parachute and find a small loaf of bread. It’s not the fine white of the Capitol stuff. It’s made of dark ration grain and shaped in a crescent. Sprinkled with seeds. I flashback to Peeta’s lesson on the various district breads in the Training Center. This bread came from District 11. I cautiously lift the still warm loaf. What must it have cost the people of District 11 who can’t even feed themselves? How many would’ve had to do without to scrape up a coin to put in the collection for this one loaf? It had been meant for Rue, surely. But instead of pulling the gift when she died, they’d authorized Haymitch to give it to me. As a thank-you? Or because, like me, they don’t like to let debts go unpaid? For whatever reason, this is a first. A district gift to a tribute who’s not your own. I lift my face and step into the last falling rays of sunlight. “My thanks to the people of District Eleven,” I say. I want them to know I know where it came from. That the full value of the gift has been recognized.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: hunger-games, suzanne-collins 58 likes Like “But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: young-adult-fiction 58 likes Like “Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 58 likes Like “Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: the-hunger-games 57 likes Like “Come to finish me off, Sweetheart?” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: katniss-everdeen, peeta-mellark, the-hunger-games 55 likes Like “I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 53 likes Like “Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?""Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 53 likes Like “the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: silence, the-hunger-games, the-reaping 52 likes Like “I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 52 likes Like “Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: humor, life-or-death, savior 50 likes Like “To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: disapproving, dissent, district-12, katniss-everdeen, silence 49 likes Like “I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 49 likes Like “I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: fiction, peeta-mellark 48 likes Like “I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 48 likes Like “Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: buttercup, cats 48 likes Like “See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 47 likes Like “Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better run now, Fire Girl," says Thresh. I don't need to be told twice. I flip over and my feet dig into the hard-packed earth as I run away from Thresh and Clove and the sound of Cato's voice. Only when I reach the woods do I turn back for an instant. Thresh and both large backpacks are vanishing over the edge of the plain into the area I've never seen. Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: careers, cato, clove, hunger-games, katniss-everdeen, thresh 46 likes Like “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 46 likes Like “He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: hates, haymitch, peeta, people 45 likes Like “Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: death, hunger-games-peeta-katniss, life, movies 45 likes Like “We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly."What?" I ask."Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale.I don't know how to respond. This idea is so preposterous.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 45 likes Like “We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 45 likes Like “But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 45 likes Like “One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 45 likes Like “for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 44 likes Like “In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 44 likes Like “So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 44 likes Like “By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice. "I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 44 likes Like « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 … 39 40 next »

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