Hunger Games Book Quotes

Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness…except possibly when it comes to you.

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Here’s some advice. Stay alive.

I don’t want to lose the boy with the bread.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

We didn’t want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games] books are very intense and very demanding of the reader, and the movie should be that too.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

Sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.

I’m more than just a piece in their Games.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Only I keep wishing I could think of a way…to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.