Catching Fire Quotes

“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.

“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.

“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress.
"Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks.
"Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say.
"Not if I keep looking at you," he says.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally.

"No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair claiming he is practicing knots. After awhile his hands go still.
“What?” I ask.
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says.
Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I’m so relaxed and beyond worrying about a future I’ll never have, I just let the word slip out.
“Okay,” I say.
I can hear the smile in his voice. “Then you’ll allow it?”
“I’ll allow it.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don't try to move away. Why should I anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. "I love you." That's why.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.”
― Suzanne Collins

“I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say.
"Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I don't like self-righteous people," I say.

"What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I know. I was hoping," I say.
"Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch.
I don't argue because, of course, he's right.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“The odds are never in our favour.”
― Suzzane Collins

“So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“You're hideous, you know that, right?”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.”
― Suzanne Collions The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Finnick Odair Quote

“Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.”
― Suzanne Collins

“it is a perfect weapon”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Remember who the real enemy is.”
― Susanne Collins

“A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Chins up smiles on - Effie Trinket”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“My heart is beating so fast and fierce I hardly hear them.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Because you have a weakness for beautiful thing and I don't" I say with an air of superiority "They would lure you into their Capitol ways and you'd be lost entirely.”
"Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness,”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy: Catching Fire/ Mockingjay in Traditional Chinese (3 Volumes) ("Ji E You Xi San Bu Qu")

“In the tight, desperate clench of our fingers are all the words we will never be able to say.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches from his nose, and give him a shake. 'Peeta. Peeta, wake up,' I say in a soft, singsong voice.

His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. 'Aa!'

Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire