33 Kutipan Novel The Hunger Games Karya Suzanne Collins, dalam Bahasa Inggris

1. “You love me. Real or not real?"

2. “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”

3. “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”

4. “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”

5. “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?”

6. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror."

7. “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."

8. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”

9. “We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.”

10. “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

11. “They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”

12. “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........”

13. “I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”

14. “All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.”

15. “I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.”

16. “You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.”

17. “In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.”

18. “Because...because...she came here with me.”

19. “He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown, leaving him in just his underwear."

20. “We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.”

21. “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.”

22. “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."

23. “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?”

24. “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.”

25. “As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.”

26. “The question is, what are you going to do?"It turns out the question that's been eating away at me has only ever had one possible answer. But it took Peeta's ploy for me to recognize it.What am I going to do?I take a deep breath. My arms rise slightly - as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me - then come to rest at my sides."I'm going to be the Mockingjay.”

27. “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.”

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

29. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!”

30. "So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal."

31. “Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato."

32. “Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.”

33. “It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.”