Katniss Father Quotes

I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?"
I would, actually, but I don't want to relent too soon. I do walk over and look at them. I've never seen this type before. No, I have. But not in the arena. These aren't Rue's berries, although they resemble them. Nor do they match any I learned about in training. I lean down and scoop up a few, rolling them between my fingers.
My father's voice comes back to me. "Not these, Katniss. Never these. They're nightlock. You'll be dead before they reach your stomach."
Just then the cannon fires. I whip around, expecting Peeta to collapseto the ground, but he only raises his eyebrows. The hoovercraft appears a hundred metres or so away.What's left of Foxface's emaciated body is lifted into the air. ~ Suzanne Collins

Peeta," I say lightly. "You said at the interview you'd had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?"
"Oh, let's see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red plaid dress and your hair... it was in two braids instead of one. My father pointed you out when we were waiting to line up," Peeta says.
"Your father? Why?" I ask.
"He said, 'See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner,'" Peeta says.
"What? You're making that up!" I exclaim.
"No, true story," Peeta says. "And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings... even the birds stop to listen.'"
"That's true. They do. I mean, they did," I say. I'm stunned and surprisingly moved, thinking of the baker telling this to Peeta. It strikes me that my own reluctance to sing, my own dismissal of music might not really be that I think it's a waste of time. It might be because it reminds me too much of my father.
"So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent," Peeta says.
"Oh, please," I say, laughing.
"No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to ta ~ Suzanne Collins

In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt. ~ Suzanne Collins

All right, so give me some idea of what you can do," says Haymitch.
I can't do anything," says Peeta, "unless you count baking bread."
Sorry, I don't. Katniss. I already know you're handy with a knife," says Haymitch.
Not really. But I can hunt," I say. "With a bow and arrow."
And you're good?" asks Haymitch.
I have to think about it. I've been putting food on the table for four years. That's no small task. I'm not as good as my father was, but he'd had more practice. I've better aim than Gale, but I've had more practice. He's a genius with traps and snares. "I'm all right," I say. ~ Suzanne Collins

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. ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss. I remember about the bread. ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss? ~ Suzanne Collins

Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine.
- Katniss - ~ Suzanne Collins

I tell him,"Real.""-Katniss Everdeen ~ Suzanne Collins

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots. - Katniss. ~ Suzanne Collins

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other. ~ Suzanne Collins

No matter what I do, I'm hurting someone. - Katniss Everdeen ~ Suzanne Collins

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead. ~ Suzanne Collins

That the Careers have been better fed growing up is actually to their disadvantage,
because they don't know how to be hungry. Not like Rue and I do. ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss, it's just hunting. You're the best hunter I know." Gale

"It's not just hunting. They're armed, they think." --Katniss

"So do you. And you've had more practice. Real practice. You know how to kill." --Gale

"Not people." --Katniss

"How different can it be, really?" --Gale

The awful thing is that if I can forget they're people, it will be no different at all. --Katniss ~ Suzanne Collins

I can't fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I've been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen ~ Suzanne Collins

By the way, I know about the kiss. Then the door clicks shut behind him. ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion ~ Suzanne Collins

I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. ~ Suzanne Collins

I'm not sure why anyone on the face of the planet would want to use a bow and arrow. I mean, it seems like a fairly limited field of expertise and usefulness. Unless your name is Katniss. ~ Andrea Portes

Katniss, got that spile? Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality. ~ Suzanne Collins

No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire. ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252) ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow. I Instinctively raise my hand to block his words but he catches it and holds on tightly.
Don't," I whisper.
But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me.
Katniss, There is no District Twelve. ~ Suzanne Collins

My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead ... - Katniss EverdeenS ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem, he says. ~ Suzanne Collins

But there's nothing up there but the wounded!" I say. "Katniss" I hear the warning note in Haymitch's voice and know what's coming. Don't you even think about-!" I yank the earpiece free and let it hang from its wire. ~ Suzanne Collins

Even though I don't ask, Plutarch gives me cheerful updates on the phone like "Good news, Katniss! I think we've almost got him convinced you're not a mutt!" Or "Today he was allowed to feed himself pudding! ~ Suzanne Collins

And that was the Capitol's fatal mistake. Allowing Katniss to become, well, Katniss. Where was the hand of tyranny to crush this early uprising that consisted of a teen girl and her bow? Where was the electricity to keep her out of the woods? Where were the brutal Peacekeepers who should have beaten the spirit out of her? ~ Leah Wilson

Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss." "What?" I ask. "The time it sticks. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution of the human race. Think about that." And then he asks me if I'd like to perform on a new singing program he's launching in a few weeks. Something upbeat would be good. He'll send the crew to my house. ~ Suzanne Collins

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. ~ Suzanne Collins

In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumours! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like, "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner." ~ Jennifer Lawrence

As cartoonist Jules Feiffer puts it: I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's walk, my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father. ~ Tara Brach

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. ~ Sigmund Freud

I'm not Team Gale or Team Peeta. I'm Team Katniss ... the core story in the Hunger Games trilogy has less to do with who Katniss ends up with and more to do with who she is - because sometimes, in books and in life, it's not about the romance.
Sometimes, it's about the girl. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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. ~ Suzanne Collins

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. ~ Suzanne Collins

I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?) ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father. ~ Denis Diderot

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave. ~ Lee Daniels

At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour ... it's green?"
"That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange."
"Orange?" He seems unconvinced.
"Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once."
"Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you."
But more words tumble out. "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."
Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry. ~ Suzanne Collins

Wow, is that Katniss making out with Yoda? ~ Becky Albertalli

Instead,I watched myself get shot on tv ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive. ~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss, the girl who was on fire! ~ Suzanne Collins

For me, you're perfect. ~ Suzanne Collins

I had to do that. At least once. ~ Suzanne Collins

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears. ~ Suzanne Collins

Where did they get those screams, Katniss? ~ Suzanne Collins

My mother was beautiful once too. Or so they tell me. -Katniss ~ Suzanne Collins

Come to finish me off, Sweetheart? ~ Suzanne Collins

I volunteer as tribute ~ Suzanne Collins

Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you! ~ Suzanne Collins

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart? ~ Suzanne Collins

I hear my name rippling through the hot air, spreading out into the hospital. "Katniss! Katniss Everdeen!" The sounds of pain and grief begin to recede, to be replaced by words of anticipation. From all sides, voices beckon me. I begin to move, clasping the hands extended to me, touching the sound parts of those unable to move their limbs, saying hello, how are you, good to meet you. Nothing of importance, no amazing words of inspiration. But it doesn't matter. Boggs is right. It's the sight of me, alive, that is the inspiration. ~ Suzanne Collins

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? ~ Suzanne Collins

Fire beats roses again. ~ Suzanne Collins

Father, we come to You, Father, in the name of the Father, Father we come to You, Father, Father, just, just, Father, Father ... ' You don't talk to you friends like that. 'Ed, Ed, come over, Ed, Ed, Ed, you are, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, ooh, Ed, Ed, Ed' - he wouldn't be your friend anymore if you did that! Like, 'You keep saying Ed ... my name's Joe! ~ Tim Hawkins

There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says.
'Done,' I say.
'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation.
'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I hold up my wrist to show my medical bracelet and realize it's gone.
'See? I can't even remember they took my bracelet.'
(Katniss and Boggs) ~ Suzanne Collins

And call no man your father on earth ... " No religious leader is to be called father. How clear is that? Don't call people "father" for " ... you have one Father who is in heaven" (v. 9). ~ James MacDonald

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent. ~ Elizabeth Acevedo

Stay with me.

Always. ~ Suzanne Collins

Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead." I clutch my middle to dull the pain. Sink down on my heels, rocking the pillow, crying. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead. ~ Suzanne Collins

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness. ~ Suzanne Collins

The odds are never in our favour. ~ Suzanne Collins

People are looking at you, Katniss. You've given them an opportunity."
~Gale Hawthorne ~ Suzanne Collins

Only.. I want to do die as myself ~ Suzanne Collins

I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me. ~ Suzanne Collins

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am. ~ Henry Louis Gates

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up. ~ Malachy McCourt

Katniss Everdeen, The Girl On Fire! ~ Suzanne Collins

The Son is called the Father; so the Son must be the Father. We must realize this fact. There are some who say that He is called the Father, but He is not really the Father. But how could He be called the Father and yet not be the Father? ... In the place where no man can approach Him (I Tim. 6:16), God is the Father. When He comes forth to manifest Himself, He is the Son. So, a Son is given, yet His name is called 'The everlasting Father.' This very Son who has been given to us is the very Father. ~ Witness Lee

Katniss the mockingjay ~ Suzanne Collins

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father! ~ Charles Dickens

A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea. ~ Suzanne Collins

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key. ~ Suzanne Collins

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father. ~ Jack Nicholson

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much. ~ Anthony Quinn

Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear? ~ William Blake

The Mockingjay lives. ~ Suzanne Collins

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him. ~ Anthony Kiedis

I always play with words,now i'm out of words i don't know how to describe you because you're my Father.. But surely i can say i love you ~ Shujoy Chowdhury

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. ~ Guillaume Apollinaire

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. ~ Samuel Johnson

Lunch makes me feel a bit better. ~ Suzanne Collins

Peeta says it will be okay. We have each other. ~ Suzanne Collins

No one really needs me ... I do I need you Peeta and Katniss ~ Suzanne Collins

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had. ~ Al Sharpton

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?" I say.
"I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror," he says.
"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.
"It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you," he says. "I'm okay once I realize you're here. ~ Suzanne Collins

There is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving. ~ Marilynne Robinson

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself. ~ Steven Saylor

A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men. ~ Victoria Secunda

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father. ~ Johnny Cash

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter. ~ Don Williams

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee. ~ Scott Howell