Suzanne Collins Quotes

Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.

I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.

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?

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.

Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss?

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

There is no more Palestine. Finished ...

There are worse things than war.

From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.