Suzanne Collins Quotes

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

I always tell girls, 'You gon' fall in love with me before I leave.'

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.

The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.