Capitol In Hunger Games Quotes by Suzanne Collins and many others.
Okay, maybe I don’t go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.
District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.
Katniss, the girl who was on fire!
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.
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.
Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.
Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?
Barbarism? That’s ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what’s she basing our success on? Our table manners?
As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
Because…because…she came here with me.
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.
I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.
No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.
They’re already taking my future! They can’t have the things that mattered to me in the past!
Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.
