Quotes
Authors
Suzanne Collins

"I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead."

-- Suzanne Collins

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“Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.”
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.”

Source : The Times, September 8, 1977.
“There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.”
“Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.”

Source : Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books
“Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.”
“I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.”
“To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing”
“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

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