More quotes by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

"You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug."
"One more time? For the audience?"he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."
"Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there."
"It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today."
"Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance."