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“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

“And being special is the best way of being different.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
― Stephen Chobsky

“Smells like home.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I thought about him going into my mom's room when she as little and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the last one to work in a mill.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“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 pass on its genetic codem, to thrive in a new form. They hadn't anticipated its will to live.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“And then it hits me. They already have. They have kiled her father in those wretched mines. They have sat by as she almost starved to death. They have chosen her as a tribute, then made her watch her sister fight to the death in the Games. She has been hurt far worse than I had at the age of twelve. And even that pales in comparison with Rue's life.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know,” Haymitch says.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Looking at Prim's face, it's hard to imagine she's the same frail little girl I left behind on reapimg day nine months ago. The combination of that ordeal and all that has followed - the cruelty in the district, the parade of sick and wounded that she often treates herself now if my mother's hands are too full - these things have aged her years. She's grown quite a bit, too; we're practically the same height now, but that isn't what makes her seem so much older.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“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

“Finnick looks at Johanna and raises his eyebrows. He will not go forward without her.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches beeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“In his hands, I am again a mockingjay.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My ongoing struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been understaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

“He must be close to six and a half feet tall. Ove feels and instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can't quite make it all the way up to the brain.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“His days passed like this, slow and methodical. And then one morning he saw her. She had brown hair and blue eyes and red shoes and a big yellow clasp in her hair.
And then there was no more peace and quiet for Ove.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“She was on course now, and had found satisfaction on other levels; writing stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleadures of miniaturization. A world could be made in five pages and one that was more pleasing than a model farm. The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed with half a page a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically emphatic sentence, falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“I heard somebody define heaven once,” she said, looking at Pearl, “as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you.”
― Robert B. Parker

“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”
― Nikita Gill

“A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That’s how awful the loss is.”
― Jay Neugeboren, An Orphan's Tale

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves