"I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Wish Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Want Quotes

“It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.”
“I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.”
“The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.”
“I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.”
“Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?”
“I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.”
“As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all you have to do is make them feel confident and comfortable and assured of what they're actually doing, and you just wind them up and watch them go.”
“I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.”

Source : Richard Peck (2005). “The River Between Us”, p.42, Penguin

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