We make a compilation of phrases from one of the most successful film adaptations of novels for young people; The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is a tetralogy of novels for teens and young adults written by Suzanne Collins. The novels are titled The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), Mockingjay (2010) and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020).
However, The Hunger Games is best known for its film adaptation. There are 4 films, the first being from 2012 and the last from 2015, raising about 3 billion dollars between all of them.
The best quotes from The Hunger Games
in these quotes from the hunger games You will be able to recall the best moments and the personality and way of being of the main characters, including Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Claudius Templesmith, Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, among others.
-Peeta! Peeta! I heard the cannon, I thought… Those are Hunger Cages berries! You’d be dead in a minute! You scared me to death. Damn. -Katniss Everdeen.
Do you know what my mother said? «District 12 will finally have a winner,» but she wasn’t referring to me. She was referring to you. -Peeta Mellark.
-You never forget the face of who was your last hope. -Katniss Everdeen.
-I don’t have any chance of winning! None! Okay? – Peeta Mellark.
-I’m not pretty. I’m not beautiful. I am as bright as the sun. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Gale is mine, and I am hers. Everything else is unthinkable. -Katniss Everdeen.
-And therefore it was decreed that each year, the twelve districts of Panem will offer as tribute one young man and one young woman between the ages of 12 and 18 to be trained in the art of survival and to prepare to fight death. –President Snow.
-Ladies and gentlemen, let the seventy-fourth edition of the hunger games begin! – Claudius Templesmith.
-Two hundred miles an hour and you can barely feel a thing. I think it’s one of the wonderful things about having this opportunity that even if you’re here and even if it’s just for a moment, you can enjoy this. –Effie Trinkett.
Peeta is strong. You can throw a 50 kilo bag over your head. I have seen it. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Do you love me. True or false? –Katniss Everdeen.–True. -Peeta Mellark
-I don’t want to lose the boy with the bread. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Taking children from our districts and forcing them to kill each other is the capitol’s way of reminding us that we are at their mercy. What a slim chance we have of surviving in the face of another rebellion. -Katniss Everdeen.
-I remember everything about you. You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention. -Peeta Mellark.
-I’m sorry I never tried to help in the forest. That I let the Capitol kill the child and mutilate him without lifting a finger. Just as I watched the Games. –Avox.
-My nightmares are usually about losing you. I calm down once I realize you’re here. -Peeta Mellark.
-We have to go, Gale, before they kill us. They are going to kill us. -Katniss Everdeen.
The thought of losing Peeta washed over me again and made me realize how badly I don’t want him to die. It is NOT about the sponsors or what happens back home. And it’s not that she doesn’t want to be alone. I do not want to lose it. -Katniss Everdeen.
I won’t close my eyes. The comment about Rue has filled me with anger, enough anger that I think I’ll die with some dignity. As my last act of defiance, I will stare at him as long as I can, not cry, and die, in my own way, invincible. – Katniss Everdeen.
-Listen. They are in trouble. Rumor has it that the capitol is very upset about exposing them in the arena. The only thing they won’t tolerate is being laughed at as if they were the joke of Panem. –Haymitch Abernathy.
-I promised her that I would try to win for her. -Katniss Everdeen.
Gale gave me a sense of security that I had lacked since my father’s death. His company replaced the lonely hours she spent in the woods. I became a better hunter when I didn’t have to constantly watch my shoulders. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Attention tributes, attention! At sunrise there will be a feast in the cornucopia. It will not be an ordinary occasion. Each of you is in desperate need of something, and we plan to be good hosts. – Claudius Templesmith.
-It’s your first year Prim, and your name is only there once. They won’t pick you. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Look, if you don’t want to talk I understand, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with getting a little help. -Peeta Mellark.
I bite my lip, feeling inferior. While I’ve questioned the availability of the trees, Peeta has been struggling to maintain her identity. The purity of being hers. -Peeta Mellark.
-Having an eye for beauty is not the same as a weakness. Except possibly when it comes at you. -Peeta Mellark.
-I offer myself! I offer myself as a tribute! -Katniss Everdeen.
-That’s mahogany! –Effie Trinkett.
-In the Capitol people have surgery to look younger and thinner. In District Twelve, looking old is an achievement as many die at young ages. You see someone older and you want to congratulate them on their longevity and ask them the secret to their survival. -Katniss Everdeen.
-But it was only a kiss that moved something inside of me. Just one that made me want more. -Katniss Everdeen.
They won’t let me gamble. But if I could, I’d bet on you. –Cinna.
«You fought hard in the Games, Miss Everdeen.» But those were games. Could you imagine being in a real war? Imagine the thousands of people killed. Without their loved ones. –President Snow.
I think it’s our tradition. It comes from a particularly painful part of our history… -Seneca Crane.
I just can’t afford to think like that. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Destroying things is much easier than making them. -Katniss Everdeen.
-I want people to recognize you when you’re in the arena. Katniss, the girl on fire. –Cinna.
-Winning won’t help me, because she came here with me. -Peeta Mellark.
-Did you come here to kill me, sweetheart? -Peeta Mellark
-Okay, there’s this girl. I’ve liked her for as long as I can remember. But I’m sure she didn’t know of my existence until the harvest. -Peeta Mellark.
-Listen to me. You are stronger than they are. You are. Get a bow. They just want you to put on a good theater for them. That is what they want. And if they don’t have one, then make one yourself, okay? You know how to hunt. –Gale Hawthorne.
-For there to be betrayal, there must first be trust. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Stupid people are dangerous. -Katniss Everdeen.
-And then for the next eleven years I tried to work up the courage to talk to you, but I didn’t succeed. -Peeta Mellark.
But now Peeta has turned me into a love object. Not just yours. Hearing him say that I have many admirers. And if the audience really thinks we’re in love… I remember how strongly they responded to her confession. -Katniss Everdeen.
-The roar of the public is deafening. Peeta had swept the rest of us away with her declaration of love to me. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Happy hunger games! And may luck always be on your side. –Effie Trinkett.
-We are 24 Gale, and only one of them survives. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Remember, we are madly in love, so it’s okay to kiss me whenever you feel like it. -Peeta Mellark
-Only this time, twelve, for Rue. –Thresh.
-This is the moment to give everything. There will be an arc. Be sure to use it. Peeta, make sure you show your strength. –Haymitch Abernathy.
-We could do it, you know. Run away, live in the forest. What we already do anyway. –Gale Hawthorne.
-So I learned to stop my tongue and turn my face into a mask of indifference so that no one could ever read my thoughts. -Katniss Everdeen.
Why aren’t you just yourself? No one can help but admire your spirit. –Cinna.
-Take care of them Gale. And whatever you do, don’t let them starve. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Rue’s death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty and injustice inflicted on us. But here, even stronger than at home, I feel powerless. There’s no way to get back at the Capitol, is there? -Katniss Everdeen.
-As long as you can find yourself, you will never starve. –Katniss’s father
-We could go home. We could. We are the only team left. -Katniss Everdeen.
-I’ll give you a tip. Keep alive. –Haymitch Abernathy.
-I keep wanting to think of a way to show them that I don’t belong to them. If I’m going to die, I’m going to die still being me. -Peeta Mellark.
I don’t care what Haymitch said. Those guys are looking at you like you’re food. Chuck it. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Just try to win. Maybe you can do it. –Primrose Everdeen.
I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. And I remember that you sang in a music group. -Peeta Mellark.
-When the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill the others. I can’t leave without a fight. -Peeta Mellark.
-You are my whole life. I could never be happy again without you. -Peeta Mellark.
-I don’t want to lose the boy with the bread. –Katniss Everden
I don’t know how to say this exactly. I just want to die as myself. Makes sense? I don’t want to be changed in there and turned into some kind of monster that I’m not. -Peeta Mellark.
-What the hell was that? Don’t you talk to me and then say you like me? You say you want to train alone? Is this how you want to play? Hey? -Katniss Everdeen.
-Stay with me! -Katniss Everdeen.
-Remember who is the real enemy. –Haymitch Abernathy.
-The game designers don’t want me dead. Not yet, anyway. Everyone knows that they could destroy us all within the first few seconds after the opening gong. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. Too much hope is dangerous. A pinch is fine, as long as it stays contained. –President Snow.
-You know, they are not the only ones who can form alliances. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Weapons give me a completely different perspective on the Games. I know I have tough opponents to go up against. But I am no longer merely prey that runs, hides, and takes desperate measures. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Do you realize that your actions make us all look bad, not just you? –Effie Trinkett.
-I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble. -Katniss Everdeen.
-Better keep this knife close. He knows what he does. –Haymitch Abernathy.
-I won’t have a chance if it doesn’t get better. You can never let go. You will always feel bad staying with me. –Gale.
-I can not win. Prim must know this in his heart. The competition will be beyond my abilities and there will be children from other districts, where winning is a great honor, and where they have been trained all their lives for this. -Katniss Everdeen.
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