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The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Quotes

The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Quotes
"But we’ll have Cook find a good recipe," said the Grandma’am.
"His only real currency was charm, which he spread liberally as he made his way through the crowd."
"They were transporting the tributes in livestock cars, and not very clean ones at that."
"It was a bad habit that blinded him to other things that could harm him."
"It’s because of the children. How they matter to people."
"People love children," said Coriolanus. "Sometimes they do," he added, but it lacked conviction.
"You give us light. You reunite. It's supposed to be everyone's government, right?"
"What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?"
"It's not your fault. The Hunger Games weren't your idea."
"All right, I'm bad, but then, you're no prize either."
"Well, all right, I'm bad, but then, that's nothing new."
"You say you won't love me, I won't love you neither."
"I am the one who looks out when you're leaping."
"And I am the one who heard what you said sleeping."
"I'll take that and more when I go to my grave."
"It's sooner than later that I'm six feet under."
"It's sooner than later that you'll be alone."
"For when the bell rings, lover, you're on your own."
"And I am the one who you let see you weeping."
"Too bad I'm the bet that you lost in the reaping."
"Perhaps you’ve forgotten about the recent bombing."
"And when you realized that, what was your response?"
"I wanted them dead. I wanted every one of them dead."
"Without the threat of death, it wouldn’t have been much of a lesson."
"You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else."
"It’s a lot to take in all at once, but it’s essential that you make an effort to answer that question."
"And a few stitches in your arm is a cheap price to pay for it."
"So, if I’m a vicious animal, then who are you? You’re the teacher who sent her student to beat another boy to death!"
"You know, Dean Highbottom and I read your essay through. What you liked about the war. A lot of fluff. Drivel, really. Until that bit in the end. The part about control."
"No control, no law, no government at all. Like being in the arena."
"What sort of agreement is necessary if we’re to live in peace? What sort of social contract is required for survival?"
"We’ll need you back in a couple of days to check those stitches."
"It’s going to be okay, Tigris. But you have to let me get some rest. You need to sleep, too."
"Bicycle accident, he thought. That’s the story."
"The Capitol isn’t really the best fit for him."
"Your family and friends, that’s your real life."
"It means we’re all in the arena together, Lucky."
"She managed to hang in there a long time, given her condition."
"When I’ve paid all my debts, when I have no regrets, right here in the old therebefore."
"My heart's stupid and that's not maybe. Can't blame Cupid, he's just a baby."
"Heart's gone funny, it won't hear reason. You're like honey, you bring the bees in."
"I wish it mattered that you chose to smash it up. How come you shattered that thing I love with?"
"Trapped my ticker but haven't freed it. People snicker at how you treat it."
"Drain it, pain it, I’m insane, it still comes a-crawling to you."
"Burn it, spurn it, don’t return it, break it, bake it, overtake it, wreck it, deck it, what the heck, it still comes a-crawling to you."
"Oh, my darling, oh, my darling, oh, my darling, Clementine, you are lost and gone forever. Dreadful sorry, Clementine."
"Take it, ’cause I’d give it free. It won’t hurt."
"Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping!"
"Are you, are you coming to the tree where they strung up a man they say murdered three?"
"Strange things did happen here no stranger would it be if we met up at midnight in the hanging tree."
"Are you, are you coming to the tree where the dead man called out for his love to flee?"
"Roses are red, love; violets are blue. Birds in the heavens know I love you."
"Know I love you, oh, know I love you, birds in the heavens know I love you."
"Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: and, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day the solitary child."
"No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; she dwelt where none abide, — the sweetest thing that ever grew upon the mountainside!"
"You yet may spy the fawn at play the hare among the green; but the sweet face of Lucy Gray will never more be seen."
""To-night will be a stormy night — you to the town must go; and take a lantern, Child, to light your mother through the snow.""
""That, Father! Will I gladly do: ’Tis scarcely afternoon — the village clock has just struck two, and yonder is the moon!""
"You never forget the face of the person who was your last hope."
"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."
"Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!"
"You have to be able to protect yourself. If you’re weak, you’re just prey."
"Sometimes the things you dread the most are the things you need the most."