Nicholas Johnston

“Fancy cakes with flowers and pretty things painted in frosting. They’re for birthdays and New Year’s Day. When we’re in the square, Prim always drags me over to admire them, although we’d never be able to afford one. There’s little enough beauty in District 12, though, so I can hardly deny her this.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“stands tilted up on her toes with her arms slightly extended to her sides, as if ready to take wing at the slightest sound. It’s impossible not to think of a bird.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games