Gentlewoman From Colorado Quotes & Sayings

Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, even in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you. When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do my work quietly in school. Make only polite small talk in the public market. Discuss little more than trades in the Hob, which is the black market where I make most of my money. Even at home, where I am less pleasant, I avoid discussing tricky topics. Like the reaping, or food — Suzanne Collins

There's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced
back to Archimedes or even earlier. — Stanislaw Ulam

What's my favorite part that I've written? That's like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly! — Matthew Catania

*Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT! — Russell T. Davies

Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn't the only one in town who'd come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever. — Sarah Weeks

Even though you would like to be able to decide for yourself how offended to be, or whether to be offended at all, you must nevertheless be very offended. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I was vanquished by a deer!'
A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier.
That sounds a little better,' Warren conceded. 'Seth is in charge of my tombstone. — Brandon Mull

I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes. — April Bloomfield

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. — Robert Brault

You never had me, Keaton, but I always had you. — Courtney Lane