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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

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Suzanne Collins
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 10
Executive Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Hartford
Connecticut
Suzanne Marie Collins
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Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.
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Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.
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Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.
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Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.
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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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because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.
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Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem
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Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .
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My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
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While you live, the revolution lives
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I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.
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I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.
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You're hideous, you know that, right?
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My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.
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Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
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Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion
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You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake- Say we move on, I broke in.
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As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.
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They recognize me. Of course they recognize me. My face is uncovered and I'm standing here outside of District 12 pointing an arrow at them. Who else would I be?
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Peeta looks at the glass again and puts it together. You mean this will make me puke? My prep team laughs hysterically. Of course, so you can keep eating, says Octavia. I've been in there twice already. Everyone does it, or else how would you have any fun at a feast?
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