Katniss’s quotes throughout The Hunger Games trilogy show her character development.
She starts as an independent teenager struggling to provide food for her family.
And she turns into a leader fighting against the evil of the capitol and the rebellion.
The Hunger Games Quotes With Page Numbers
Katniss Everdeen Quotes Hunger Games Book 1
“My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger, still worn but not so beaten-down. Prim’s face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named. My mother was very beautiful once, too. Or so they tell me.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 3
“Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me.
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 4
“But there’s food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 5
“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 6
“So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 6
“She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father’s sake. But to be honest, I’m not the forgiving type.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 8
“You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 10
“The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 18
“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. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Pages 18, 19
“One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn’t mattered.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 2, Page 21
“I volunteer!” I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute!”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 2, Page 22
“I don’t want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I’ll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 2, Page 23
“So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 2, Page 24
No, the odds are not in my favor today.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 2, Page 25
“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.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 2, Page 32
“I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I’d be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we’re going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won’t seem sincere if I’m trying to slit his throat.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 2, Page 32
“I’ll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 3, Page 40
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 4, Page 49
“I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 4, Page 52
“And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 4, Page 53
“I notice her blouse has pulled out of her skirt in the back again and force myself to stay calm. “Tuck your tail in, little duck,” I say, smoothing the blouse back in place.
Prim giggles and give me a small “Quack.”
“Quack yourself,” I say with a light laugh. The kind only Prim can draw out of me.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss and Prim Everdeen, Chapter 4, Page 53
“One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I’ll never see food again. And I said, “I won’t unless I bring it home.” That shut her up.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 4, Pages 55, 56
“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 5, Page 65
“With all that alcohol in him, it’s probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,’ I say.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 5, Page 68
“No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 5, Page 70
“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 5, Page 72
“The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 5, Page 72
“But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise. ”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 5, Page 72
“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?”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 6, Page 74
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 6, Page 85
“It’s weird, how much he’s noticed me. Like the attention he’s paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 7, Page 93
“It’s lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.”
“Don’t be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it’s a gigantic cake-”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Peeta and Katniss, Chapter 7, Page 96
Peeta Mellark Quotes With Page Numbers
“It’s not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 7, Page 97
“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.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 7, Page 101
“I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I’m blown backward into the air.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 7, Page 102
“Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other’s survival means our own death. How do you side step that?”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 8, Page 112
“They’re already taking my future! They can’t have the things that mattered to me in the past!”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 9, Page 117
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 9, Page 121
“In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren’t scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren’t desirable. A round belly isn’t a sign of success.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 9, Pages 124,125
“Her name’s Prim. She’s just twelve. And I love her more than anything.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 9, Page 129
“And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 10, Pages 137, 138
“This is what birds see. Only they’re free and safe. The very opposite of me.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 10, Page 144
“All the general fear I’ve been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The blade lodges in the pack. Both straps on my shoulders now, I make for the trees. Somehow I knew the girl will not pursue me. That she’ll be drawn back into the Cornucopia before all the good stuff is gone. A grin crosses my face. Thanks for the knife, I think.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 11, Page 151
“Stupid people are dangerous.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 11, Page 159
“Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 13, Page 179
“Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 13, Page 183
“Sick and disoriented, I’m able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 14, Page 194
“for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 15, Page 197
“I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she’s a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 15, Page 201
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 16, Page 211
“Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 17, Page 225
“When I break into the clearing, she’s on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, about Rue, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 17, Page 232
“Deep in the meadow, under the willow
a bed of grass, a soft green pillow
lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes
and when again they open, the sun will rise.
Hear it’s safe, here it’s warm
hear the daisies guard you from every harm
hear your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
hear is the place where i love you.
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
a clock of leaves, a moonbeam ray
forget your woes and let your troubles lay
and when again it’s morning, they’ll wash away.
Hear it’s safe, hears its’ warm
hear the daises guard you from every harm
Hear your dreams are sweet and tomorrow bring them true
hear is the place where i love you.”~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen reciting a song to Rue, Chapter 18, Pages 234, 235
“Only I keep wishing I could think of a way…to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 18, Page 236
“No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 19, Page 258
“It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 18, Pages 258, 259
“You’re not going to die. I forbid it. All right?”
“All right,” he whispers.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 19, Page 261
“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 19, Page 261
“Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 19, Page 261
“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 21, Page 289
“I don’t want to lose the boy with the bread.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 22, Page 297
“In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I’m struck by his immediacy now. As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else’s arms have made me feel this safe.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 22, Pages 298, 299
“Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 23, Page 318
“I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I’m so grateful that he’s here, not dead by the stream as I’d thought. So glad I don’t have to face Cato alone.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 24, Page 323
“You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 25, Page 343
“It’s like being home again, when they bring in the hopelessly mangled person from the mine explosion, or the woman in her third day of labor, or the famished child struggling against pneumonia and my mother and Prim, they wear that same look on their faces. Now is the times to run away tho the woods, to hide in the trees until the patient is long gone and in another part of the Seam the hammers make the coffin. But I’m held here both by the hovercraft walls and the same force that holds the loved ones of the dying. How often I’ve seen them, ringed around our kitchen table and I thought, Why don’t they leave? Why do they stay to watch?
And now I know. It’s because you have no choice.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 26, Page 347
“It’s funny, because even though they’re rattling on about the Games, it’s all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred. . . . Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 26, Page 354
“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, ‘So now that you’ve got me, what are you going to do with me?’ I turn into him. ‘Put you somewhere you can’t get hurt.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta, Chapter 27, Page 368
“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.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Peeta and Katniss, Chapter 27, Pages 373, 374
Catching Fire Quotes And Page Numbers
Katniss Everdeen Quotes Catching Fire
“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 14
“It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 2, Page 22
“My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn’t help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father’s death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 3, Pages 31, 32
“Now he’s [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he’s drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created.
You know, I think I show a lot of promise,” I say.
Get dressed, you worthless thing.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 3, Page 39
“If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there’s some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 4, Page 48
“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I’m free to act as desperately as I wish.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 6, Page 75
“Oh, the fun we two have together.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 6, Page 76
“Peeta, how come I never know when you’re having a nightmare?” I say.
“I don’t know. I don’t think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.
“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.
“It’s not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I’m okay once I realize you’re here.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss and Peeta, Chapter 6, Pages 85, 86
“But Mockingjays were never a weapon,” said Madge. “They’re just songbirds. Right?”
“Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen and Madge, Chapter 7, Page 92
“He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don’t try to move away. Why should I anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. “I love you.” That’s why.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 7, Pages 96, 97
“Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 8, Page 117
“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 8, Page 118
“My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. “I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss and Gale, Chapter 8, Pages 118, 119
“I really can’t think about kissing when I’ve got a rebellion to incite. ”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 9, Pages 125, 126
“Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 11, Page 156
″‘Like you said, it’s going to be bad no matter how you slice it. And whatever Peeta wants, it’s his turn to be saved. We both owe him that.’ My voice takes on a pleading tone. ‘Besides, the Capitol hates me so much, I’m as good as dead now. He still might have a chance.‘”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 13, Page 178
“As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 13, Page 179
“I swear if you cry, I’ll kill you here and now.’
Cinna just smiles. ‘Had a damp morning?’
‘You could wring me out.’ I reply”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 15, Page 205
“I turn and put my lips close to Peeta’s and drop my eyelids in imitation… “He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 15, Page 211
“I look up into those blue eyes that no amount of dramatic makeup can make truly deadly and remember how, just a year ago, I was prepared to kill him. Convinced he was trying to kill me. Now everything is reversed. I’m determined to keep him alive, knowing the cost will be my own life, but the part of me that is not so brave as I could wish is glad that it’s Peeta, not Haymitch, beside me.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 15, Page 212
“We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans’ favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving.
And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 15, Page 212
“I forget the rest of the gym and the victors and how miserable I am and lose myself in the shooting. When I manage to take down five birds in one round, I realize it’s so quiet I can hear each one hit the floor. I turn and see the majority of the victors have stopped to watch me. Their faces show everything from envy to hatred to admiration.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 16, Page 232-33
“I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane’s name on it…”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 17, Page 241
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says.
Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I’m so relaxed and beyond worrying about a future I’ll never have, I just let the word slip out.“Okay,” I say.
I can hear the smile in his voice. “Then you’ll allow it?”
“I’ll allow it.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss and Peeta, Chapter 17, Pages 245, 246
“Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don’t want to miss any of them.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 17, Page 246
“I can only form one clear thought.
This is no place for a girl on fire.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 18, Page 263
“I owe it to the rebels who, emboldened by Cinna’s example, might be fighting to bring down the Capitol at this moment. My refusal to play the Games on the Capitol’s terms is to be my last act of rebellion. So I grit my teeth and will myself to be a player. ”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 19, Page 267
“Well, what did I think? That the victors’ chain of locked hands last night would result in some sort of universal truce in the arena? No, I never believed that. But I guess I had hoped people might show some . . . what? Restraint? Reluctance, at least. Before they jumped right into massacre mode.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 19, Page 276
“I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it’s so bizarre, even for Finnick.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 20, Page 280
“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I’m the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 20, Page 284
“One way or the other, I have a very valuable piece of information. And if they know I have it, they might do something to alter the force field so I can’t see the aberration anymore. So I lie.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 20, Page 284
“That’s when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead, only know I must reach her, protect her. I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, through anything that keeps me from reaching her.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 23, Page 239
“I go into the saltwater and wash off the blood, trying to decide which I hate more, pain or itching. Fed up, I stomp back onto the beach, turn my face upward and snap, “Hey, Haymitch, if you’re not too drunk, we could use a little something for our skin.”
It’s almost funny how quickly the parachute appears above me. I reach up and the tube lands squarely in my open hand.
“About time” I say, but I can’t keep the scowl on my face. Haymitch. What I wouldn’t give for five minutes of conversation with him.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 22, Page 315
“Remembering from last year how Haymitch’s gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You’ll get food.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 22, Page 317
“So that’s who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home. ”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 24, Page 348
“No one really needs me,” he says, and there’s no self-pity in his voice. It’s true his family doesn’t need him. They will mourn him, as will a handful of friends. But they will get on… I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
“I do,” I say. “I need you.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Peeta and Katniss, Chapter 24, Page 351
“Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven’t looked pretty?” I say.
“It must be. The sensation’s completely new. How have you managed it all these years?” he asks.
“Just avoid mirrors. You’ll forget about it,” I say.
“Not if I keep looking at you,” he says.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss and Finnick, Chapter 26, Page 376
“The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol’s plans. The symbol of the rebellion.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 27, Pages 386, 387
Mockingjay Quotes With Page Numbers
Katniss Everdeen Mockingjay Quotes With Page Numbers
“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……..”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 4 (first appearance)
“Some walks you have to take alone.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 1, Page 5
“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 8, Page 106
“Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here.
No stranger would let it be if we met up
At midnight in the hanging tree.”~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen singing, Chapter 9, Page 123
“I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 11, Page 156
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 11, Page 156
“Finnick!” Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman–dark tangled hair, sea green eyes–runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. “Finnick!” And suddenly, it’s as if there’s no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible.
A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for their certainty. No one seeing them could doubt their love.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen as the narrator and Annie, Chapter 12, Page 175-176
“Sometimes when I’m alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 14, Page 195
“Oh, Peeta, Don’t make me sorry I restarted your heart.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 17, Page 242
“Ally.” Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. “Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I’ll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Peeta and Katniss, Chapter 19, Page 270
“You’re a painter. You’re a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 19, Page 271
“You’re still trying to protect me. Real or not real,” he whispers.
“Real,” I answer. “Because that’s what you and I do, protect each other.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Peeta and Katniss, Chapter 21, Page 302
“Stay with me.
…
Always.”~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, (Katniss and Peeta), Chapter 22, Page 314
“Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 25, Page 352
“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, (Katniss as narrator), Chapter 27, Page 377
“She’s not here,” I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. “She’s not here. You can hiss all you like. You won’t find Prim.” At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. “Get out!” He dodges the pillow I throw at him. “Go away! There’s nothing left for you here!” I start to shake, furious with him. “She’s not coming back! She’s never ever coming back here again!” I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. “She’s dead, you stupid cat. She’s dead.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 27, Page 386
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 27, Page 388
“That what I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 27, Page 388
“You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, (Peeta and Katniss), Chapter 27, Page 388
“I’ll tell them how I survive it. I’ll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I’m afraid it could be taken away. That’s when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I’ve seen someone do. It’s like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, (Katniss as narrator), Epilogue, Page 398
2 quotes that demonstrate Katniss’s sassy personality Chapters 6-7
“Don’t. Let’s pretend when there’s no one around.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 7, Page 100
‘Thank you for your consideration,” I say. Then I give a slight bow and walk straight toward the exit without being dismissed.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Chapter 7, Page 102
What is Katniss Everdeen’s most famous line?
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Katniss, Chapter 9, Page 121
What are 3 words to describe Katniss?
Independent, resourceful, selfless
What does Katniss say she will never do?
In chapter 1, page 9 of The Hunger Games, Katniss says, “I never want to have kids” because of the selections, lack of food, and difficulty living in the districts.
What is Katniss’s biggest flaw?
“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Haymitch, Chapter 9, Page 117