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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) QUOTES

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) QUOTES

1 " Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.

“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.

“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

2 " Not like this. He wanted it to be real. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

3 " Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

4 " Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

5 " Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is? "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

6 " Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

7 " Aim higher in case you fall short. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

8 " You could do a lot worse. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

9 " I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

10 " The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

11 " Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

12 " Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

13 " As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

14 " Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

15 " Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

16 " The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta... in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. But Peeta would be more valuable alive, and tragic, because he will be able to turn his pain into words that will transform people. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

17 " Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me instead of brushing aside any offer of help, as I did for years out of anger. Letting her handle all the money I won. Returning her hugs instead of tolerating them. My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn’t help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father’s death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

18 " I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

19 " Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one had the right to treat them as they have been treated? Yes. This is the thing to remember when fear threatens to swallow me up. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

20 " They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked. "

― Suzanne Collins , Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)