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„Peeta. Blut wie Regentropfen am Fenster. Wie feuchte Erde an den Stiefeln.“

Suzanne Collins buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn

“Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”

Suzanne Collins buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn

“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.”

Suzanne Collins buch Catching Fire

“I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.”

Suzanne Collins buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn

“Only.. I want to do die as myself”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“Peeta" I said "Stay with me"

I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always”

Suzanne Collins buch Catching Fire

“Crying is not an option.”

Suzanne Collins

“Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.”

Suzanne Collins buch Catching Fire

“All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.”

Suzanne Collins buch Catching Fire

“turn and turn and turn again
you see the what, but not the when
remedy and wrong entwine
and so they form a single vine”

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

“Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?"

"Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female…
I am going back into the arena.”

Suzanne Collins buch Catching Fire

“Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“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 buch 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 buch Catching Fire

“Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!”

Suzanne Collins buch 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 buch Catching Fire

“I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.”

Suzanne Collins buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn

“I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“I wonder how she'll make up her mind."
"Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”

Suzanne Collins buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn

“I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta”

Suzanne Collins buch Catching Fire

“He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.”

Suzanne Collins

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

Suzanne Collins buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn

“Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.”

Suzanne Collins buch Catching Fire

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

Suzanne Collins buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn