Mockingjay Quotes

#1. Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#2. 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 ... #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#3. Katniss. I remember about the bread. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#4. I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#5. It means we're on your side. That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#6. Why...do you find this...distracting? #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#7. I'm left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick's fate would have one day been mine. Why not? Snow could have gotten a really good price for the girl on fire. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#8. Because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#9. If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#10. But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#11. I find myself focusing up at the sky - the only roof left - because too many memories are drowning me. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#12. They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#13. I Am The Mockingjay #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#14. I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#15. What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness? #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#16. I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken 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. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#17. 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. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#18. We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#19. The symbol of the revolution. The Mockingjay. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#20. Oh, that I do know ... Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#21. 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. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#22. A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me.
"I'm with the Mockingjay," he says. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#23. I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?"
"Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?"
"Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#24. In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#25. There are two separate scripts for 'Mockingjay' parts one and two. It's definitely one story, but there are two totally distinct and separate scripts. #Quote by Francis Lawrence

#26. 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. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#27. 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. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#28. You're alive, I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#29. Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage ... I'm in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it's the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that's when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#30. Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, mistakes just waiting to be made again. Instead she gives us a song. And children. And though "they play on a graveyard" (Mockingjay), the important thing is that they are free to play. #Quote by Leah Wilson

#31. I'm going to be the Mockingjay. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#32. Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#33. At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#34. Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!"
It's all I can do not to slap him. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#35. My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#36. Hunger Games and A New Hope: Hero rises up from the poorest place in the galaxy. Put through some challenges. Finds romance and a side-kick. Somebody dies. Check
Catching Fire and Empire Strikes Back: Totalitarian government strikes back, some other people die, and the rebellion starts gaining momentun.
Mockingjay/Return of the Jedi: Bunch of minor characters die, and then one major one. Rebellion wins, if in an unexpected way. Characters all get married.
I think Suzanne Collins has some explaining to do. #Quote by Caleb Eversole

#37. I tell him,"Real.""-Katniss Everdeen #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#38. Whatever strength, courage... madness keeps us going, we find it, in times like these. You have it, soldier. It's what kept you alive all this time. #Quote by Danny Strong

#39. Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run,
So we'd both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

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 it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#40. Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#41. I'm interested in a lot. Like right now, I'm just really excited for 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2. But I love playing characters like Prim - I mean, Prim is like my dream character - but after 'The Hunger Games', it would be fun to look and see what else I could do well. But right now, Prim is like my dream role. #Quote by Willow Shields

#42. Stay with me.

Always. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#43. berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#44. Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them."
"That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#45. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that's when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna has turned me into a mockingjay. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#46. My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#47. I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#48. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#49. What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago. #Quote by Natalie Dormer

#50. The show's not over until the mockingjay sings," she said.
"The mockingjay?" He laughed. "Really, I think you're just making these things up."
"Not that one. A mockingjay's a bona fide bird," she assured him.
"And it sings in your show?" he asked.
"Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol's anyway. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#51. Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations. #Quote by Jon Feltheimer

#52. You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you? demands Haymitch.
I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#53. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#54. I must have loved you a lot. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#55. I'm so tired, Katniss. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#56. They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "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! #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#57. Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch? #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#58. Most importantly, Mockingjay tells us something difficult, something readers don't necessarily want to her, but that is almost certainly the truth: when you get pushed as far as Katniss is, you are changed in fundamental ways. You can't go home again. War really is hell. Happily Ever After is a lie. That doesn't mean all is hopeless. Katniss isn't destroyed. This book is no simple-minded fantasy; no king is crowned to triumphant fanfare, no gold medals bestowed , and maybe there's not even any real wisdom gained. But life does go on. #Quote by Leah Wilson

#59. Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left.
"So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#60. I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#61. ...I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. The Capitol seal on a wing glows clearly through the flames. 'Fire is catching!' I am shouting now, determined that he will not miss a word. 'And if we burn, you burn with us! #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#62. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#63. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#64. I don't stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."
"The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you," I say.
Gale holds my gaze. "If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#65. Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#66. I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I yank my head back in confusion to find myself looking into Peeta's eyes, only now they hold my gaze. Blood runs from the teeth marks on the hand he clamped over my nightlock.
"Let me go!" I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp.
"I can't," he says. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#67. Countering him. The call does happen, a decision is made, and by evening I'm suited up in my Mockingjay outfit, with my bow slung over my shoulder and an earpiece that connects #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#68. Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors reassure him, flash lights in his eyes, checks his pules. I'm disappointed that mine was not the first face he saw when he woke up, but he sees it now. His features registrer disbelief and something more intense that I can't quite place. Desire? Desperation? Surely both, for he sweeps the doctors aside, leaps to his feets and moves towards me. I run to meet him, my arms extended to embrace him. His hands are reaching for mine too, to caress my face, I think.
My lips are forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#69. Whistle a birdcall. The mockingjay cocks its head and whistles the call right back at me. Then, to my surprise, Pollux whistles a few notes of his own. The bird answers him immediately. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#70. While I was waiting...I ate your lunch. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#71. Make that a condition of being the Mockingjay." "That I can feed you turnips?" he says. "No, that we can hunt." That gets #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#72. We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#73. It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes.
Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, "I think you'd be pretty in any color."
The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#74. Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#75. How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?" "Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot," I say. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#76. Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#77. I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.
Finally, my wings begin to falter, I lose height, and gravity pulls me into a foamy sea the color of Finnick's eyes. I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. When I am adrift and unable to navigate, that's when they come. The dead.
The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.
The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat.
"No, Katniss! No! You can't go!"
But the ones I hated are winning, and if she clings to me, she'll be lost as well. "Prim, let go!" And finally she does. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#78. 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. #Quote by Suzanne Collins

#79. Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us! #Quote by Suzanne Collins