Cassie King > Cassie's Quotes

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“There are much worse games to play.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Some walks you have to take alone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Courage only counts when you can count.”
― Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander

“Fire beats roses again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.”
― Suzanne Collins

“I'm going to be the Mockingjay.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I will never give up if you never give in.”
― Suzanne Collins

“A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“The girl on fire.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle. "Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to- the fact that you say that it's over, or the fact that you say it's a game. It's only over when one of us keeps the notebook for good. It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Are you happy?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“A book is a loaded gun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“She baked you cookies!' he repeated as if I'd missed the importance.

'So what?' I turned to get my bag, but Tim blocked my way.

'She wants to have your babies.”
― Brian Katcher, Almost Perfect