# The Hunger Games

- Author: [Suzanne Collins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins.md)
- Quotes: 21
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games

## Quotes

> "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.".
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> "Without success," I add.
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> "Without success."

p. 301 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/then-for-the.md)

> "And may the odds—" He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me.
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> I catch it in my mouth and break the delicate skin with my teeth. The sweet tartness explodes across my tongue. "—be ever in your favor!"

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/and-may-the.md)

> "Come on," says Cato. He thrusts a spear into the hands of the boy from District 3, and they head off in the direction of the fire. The last thing I hear as they enter the woods is Cato saying, "When we find her, I kill her in my own way, and no one interferes."
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> Somehow I don't think he's talking about Rue. She didn't drop a nest of tracker jackers on him.

p. 217 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/come-on-says.md)

> Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/winning-means-fame.md)

> "So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can‘t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.
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> "I don't think it‘s going to work out. Winning...won‘t help in my case," says Peeta.
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> "Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me."

p. 138 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/so-heres-what.md)

> And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen back home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

p. 297 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/and-while-i-was.md)

> "So you're supposed to give us some advice", I say to Haymitch.
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> "Here's some advice. Stay Alive," says Haymitch and bursts out laughing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/so-youre-supposed.md)

> So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/so-i-learned.md)

> "Remember, we're madly in love, so it‘s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."

p. 253 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/remember-were-madly.md)

> Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don’t think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/then-something-unexpected.md)

> "I want the audience to recognize you when you're in the arena," says Cinna dreamily. "Katniss, the girl who was on fire."
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> It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

p. 67 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/i-want-the.md)

> "I wonder what Gale made of the incident for a moment and then I push the whole thing out of my mind becouse for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well together in my thoughts."

p. 186 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/i-wonder-what.md)

> I enter a nightmare from which I wake repeatedly only to find a greater terror awaiting me. All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can’t help but believe they're real. Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't. It's only the beginning of a new chapter of torture. How many ways do I watch Prim die? Relive my father's last moments? Feel my own body ripped apart? This is the nature of the tracker jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.

p. 194 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/i-enter-a-nightmare.md)

> "Ladies and gentlemen, let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!"

p. 147 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/ladies-and-gentlemen.md)

> It's like being home again, when they bring in the hopelessly mangled person from the mine explosion, or the woman in her third day of labor, or the famished child struggling against pneumonia and my mother and Prim, they wear that same look on their faces. Now is the times to run away tho the woods, to hide in the trees until the patient is long gone and in another part of the Seam the hammers make the coffin. But I'm held here both by the hovercraft walls and the same force that holds the loved ones of the dying. How often I've seen them, ringed around our kitchen table and I thought, Why don't they leave? Why do they stay to watch?
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> And now I know. It's because you have no choice.

p. 347 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/its-like-being.md)

> You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/you-dont-forget.md)

> "One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice wasn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
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> I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I finally have to let go.

p. 373 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/one-more-time.md)

> "You're not leaving me here alone," I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out.

p. 343 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/youre-not-leaving.md)

> Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
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> A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
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> Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
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> And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.
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> Here it's safe, here it's warm
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> Here the daisies guard you from every harm
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> The final lines are barely audible.
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> Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
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> Here is the place where I love you.

p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/deep-in-the.md)

> She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.

p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/she-must-have.md)

> "Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games," says Peeta.

p. 142 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/only-i-keep.md)