Suzanne Collins Names Quotations

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.

I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

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

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.

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

She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and then you can hear a pin drop, and I'm feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it's not me, that it's not me, that it's not me. Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it's not me. It's Primrose Everdeen.

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

Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...