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It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

Suzanne Collins

It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

Tags: murder

I 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,...

Suzanne Collins

I 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,...

Tags: arrow, book, coin, collins, dead, end, everdeen, game, hunger, katniss

About Author
Suzanne Marie Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American author and television writer. She is best known as the author of the young adult dystopian book series The Hunger Games. She is also the author of the children's fantasy series The Underland Chronicles.

I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.Fina...

Suzanne Collins

I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.Fina...

Tags: bird, book, burn, dead, end, fire, katniss, mockingjay, prim, wings

I 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 ti...

Suzanne Collins

I 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 ti...

Tags: another, book, collins, end, everdeen, gale, games, hunger, katniss, kiss

I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I yank my head back in confusion to find myself looking into Peeta’s eyes, only now they...

Suzanne Collins

I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I yank my head back in confusion to find myself looking into Peeta’s eyes, only now they...

Tags: katniss, mockingjay, peeta, suzanne collins

Lunch makes me feel a bit better.

Suzanne Collins

Lunch makes me feel a bit better.

Tags: food, funny, hunger games, katniss, lunch, pick me up

You call that a kiss?

Suzanne Collins

You call that a kiss?

Tags: books, haymitch, movies, the hunger games

Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people".

Suzanne Collins

Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people".

Tags: insightful, thought provoking

If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. No, I won't let you. Trust me, I whi...

Suzanne Collins

If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. No, I won't let you. Trust me, I whi...

By Tim O'Brien Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi & Phil Falco e-ISBN: 978-0-545-22993-7 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of

Suzanne Collins

By Tim O'Brien Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi & Phil Falco e-ISBN: 978-0-545-22993-7 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of

Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once.

Suzanne Collins

Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once.

Tags: love, young adult

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread

Suzanne Collins

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread

Tags: love, young adult

Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over?

Suzanne Collins

Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over?

Tags: feelings, numb, sedate

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late...

Suzanne Collins

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late...

Tags: nature, children, age

I miss him so badly it hurts.

Suzanne Collins

I miss him so badly it hurts.

Tags: hurt, missing

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessar...

Suzanne Collins

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessar...

Tags: war, me, down

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

Suzanne Collins

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

Tags: suzanne collins, underland chronicles, war

She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

Suzanne Collins

She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

Tags: anger, death, grief

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

Suzanne Collins

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

Tags: friends, hunger games, love, movie

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

Suzanne Collins

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

Tags: story, boys and girls, write