Suzanne Collins Quotes

He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.

There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go inside. People started to gather on the street, until Rosa Hubermann swore at them, after which they reversed back whence they came. ~A TRANSLATION OF ROSA HUBERMANN’S ANNOUNCEMENT~ ‘What are you arseholes looking at?

There were a coupla times when I had had it. And when I'm pushed to the limit, I scream.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

I have a raging temper. I'll shout and scream, then it passes like a wicked storm.

I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.

You really have to do something Bruce Banner-like to me to cause me to go into my righteous indignation mode.

I've still got a lot of tantrums to throw.

I can be quite fiery. I was worse when I was younger but even now, when there is a bad decision from... it doesn't matter who, I sometimes want to scream.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

I'm not a table-flipper.

I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

It doesn't take much to make me angry.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

I'm an angry guy.