Suzanne Collins Quotes

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

This one’s easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza)

There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

We knew that they would probably go after someone.

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

You can slice me up if you want to, but it won't do you any good.

Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.

I never thought I'd ever get stabbed in my life. The fact that it happened twice within, like, a two-month period is pretty insane.

I definitely believe if you give me any part of your chin, you are going to sleep.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?

Stop fearing being attacked.

Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.