Catching Fire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
-- Clarence Darrow

#Truth #Honesty #Catching Fire
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Strong #Catching Fire #Shame
You're hideous, you know that, right?
-- Suzanne Collins

#Catching Fire
Tick tock, this is a clock.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Catching Fire #Tick #Clock
I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Self #People #Catching Fire
I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Kissing #Worry #Catching Fire
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Humorous #Catching Fire #Target
Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Mirrors #Years #Catching Fire

I believe in being an innovator.
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.