Suzanne Collins Quotes

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

No one can tell me what to do.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

I really rebel against authority.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I'm always rebelling. I don't think I'll ever stop.

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

Please don't tell me what I can't do.

I don't have to explain myself to nobody. Nobody. I don't.

You cannot police me, so get off my areola

We don't need no thought control.

Bill said, "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment. "I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.