Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Marie Collinsis an American television writer and novelist, best known as the author of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 August 1962
CountryUnited States of America
doors calling dinner
I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving.
running hands glasses
That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.
lying forever gazing
Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.
catching-on desperate-measures catching-fire
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
You could do a lot worse.
katniss romance hunger
You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
said handle i-can
Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.
song catching-on flames
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.
people arena bags
Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.
girl catching-on president-snow
Katniss, the girl who was on fire!
sorry kissing simple
I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip." "Hey, Gale," I say. "Thought you'd be gone by now," He says. My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble." "Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under.
mother born made
My mother says healers are born, not made.
humorous crowds favors
If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.
thinking punishment despair
In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair.