Suzanne Collins Quotes

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not.

When there's a war, people get married.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

There is no such thing as fighting on the winning side: one fights to find out which is the winning side.

He who wars, walks in a mist, through which the keenest eyes cannot always discern the right path.

Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.

At the end of the day, it's a fight, and anything can happen.

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

And here it will end, one way or the other," she whispered again

Nobody loses all the time.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards.

Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.