mockingjay Quotes

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.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

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

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

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.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

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.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

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.

- Danny Strong, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 screenplay

Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

- Finnick Odair Mockingjay

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.