Suzanne Collins Quotes

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can't sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died.

I wanted the next family to hurt, because you made my family hurt. Them emotions were still running in me... Whether I'm a rap star or not, if I still feel like that, then I'm part of the problem rather than the solution.

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

I write out of revenge.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

We can look at the pain in our lives. We can look at the way we have been mistreated, and we can have an attitude of, I will never amount to anything. I have been wrong about people all my life. I am going to pay somebody back for this.

Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.