Suzanne Collins Quotes

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

I'm not in love with you.

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.