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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
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Hartford
Connecticut
Suzanne Marie Collins
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So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark
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Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.
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What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.
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We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss, says Plutarch. While you live, the revolution lives.
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Oh, well. At least my blood is flowing.
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She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.
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Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't, I say. And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?
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I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.
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They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!
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You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark
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Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch? I say. Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience, he says. Look at the courage Peeta just displayed! It's all I can do not to slap him.
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An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.
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I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
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If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games? And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth at a ridiculous rate and i feel vomit at the back of my throat. I swallow hard and open my lips so I can get the stupid line out and go hide in the woods and-that's when i start crying.
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And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day, she said. Do you see?
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That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.
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