Suzanne Collins’ “Catching Fire” Quotes (88 Quotes)

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

I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who i can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.

A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage

Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.

It'd be better if he were easier to hate.

So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark

What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.

A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist.

Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Whatever it takes to break you.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there's some of that too.

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

While you live, the revolution lives

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

Katniss, there is no District Twelve...

Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.

You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

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

I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.

Katniss, when you are in the arena,you just remember who the true enemy is

The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.

And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.

Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!

I wish Peeta were her to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish, that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

Highly unlikely but not impossible.

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

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

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.

You're hideous, you know that, right?

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

I can't fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I've been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.