Suzanne Collins Quotes

You have to name it to claim it

To-morrow is ah, whose?

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody, anywhere, doing anything. I liked that she was our invention, a woman living on the last page of the story with only what we imagined spread out before her. I liked that she was ours, alone.

Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?

To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

Listen to me. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn’t matter. You’re not one of them. You never were. You’re not theirs. You’re mine.

I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's just how it is. I think my name must be Williamsova.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Anybody who claims that they know where this whole thing is all going is just lying.

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?

I think of myself as a global citizen.

I think people look at me and realize that I am definitely not in line to the throne. It feels very easy living in Great Britain. The world is a much smaller place than it used to be, it doesn't feel like a huge cultural difference living here.

I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

I'm a Bookchinite, and nobody has a right to claim that but me.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.

For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and I guess there are other references in other films I make - the similar type of image. But I think it's interesting, it's breaking through the mystery, or maybe it stays in the fog... we don't really know. Where is he at the beginning of the film, who is he?

Nobody knows what Trump is thinking. But they all think they do.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.