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We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

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Suzanne Collins
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 10
Executive Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Suzanne Marie Collins
Suzanne Collins
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In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.
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Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.
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My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.
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But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.
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Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.
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Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
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So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality.” “They saw her shoot,” says Peeta with a smile. “Actually, I saw her shoot, for real, for the first time. I'm about to put in a formal request myself.” “You're that good?” Haymitch asks me.
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Better not to give in to it.
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But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.
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He frosted under heavy guard.
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I’m in pain. That’s the only way I get your attention
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I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.
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Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.
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what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.
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I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.
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Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner
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But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. Katniss, there is no District Twelve.
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I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
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How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?
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