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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0) QUOTES

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0) QUOTES

1 " Trust is important. I think it's more important than love. I mean, I love all kinds of things I don't trust. Thunderstorms... white liquor... snakes. Sometimes I think I love them because I can't trust them, and how mixed up is that? "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

2 " I’m bad news, all right,” said Coriolanus. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

3 " Start with that. Chaos. No control, no law, no government at all. Like being in the arena. Where do we go from there? What sort of agreement is necessary if we're to live in peace? What sort of social contract is required for survival? "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

4 " You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn't give you that right. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn't give you that right. Nothing does. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

5 " Si la causa no era honorable, ¿cómo podía ser un honor participar en ella? "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

6 " Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

7 " You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

8 " Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

9 " People aren’t so bad, really,” she said. “It’s what the world does to them. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

10 " That is the thing with giving your heart. You never wait for someone to ask. You hold it out and hope they want it "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

11 " The show’s not over until the mockingjay sings,” she said.
“The mockingjay?” He laughed. “Really, I think you’re just making these things up.”
“Not that one. A mockingjay’s a bona fide bird,” she assured him.
“And it sings in your show?” he asked.
“Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol’s anyway. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

12 " Snow lands on top "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

13 " I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

14 " Before need, before love, came trust. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

15 " And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

16 " The strain of being a full-fledged adult every day had grown tiresome. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

17 " You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

18 " What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness? "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

19 " Wars are won by heads not hearts. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

20 " Afraid of everything. If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life . . . then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that was for sure. And if you couldn’t trust them, who could you trust? All bets were off. "

― Suzanne Collins , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)