#catching

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#bench #bend #breath #catching #climbing

But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no district twelve. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#gale #hunger-games #katniss #katniss

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#away #bamboo #catching #close #come

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day, we have a lot of catching up to do. ↗

— Heather King

#catching #children #day #five #hundred

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss #love #peeta #quote

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#catching #feeling #idea #legitimate #oneself

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#catching #especially #feeling #happen #happened

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta... in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. But Peeta would be more valuable alive, and tragic, because he will be able to turn his pain into words that will transform people. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#catching #fire #games #hunger #inspirational

He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don't try to move away. Why should I anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. "I love you." That's why. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#gale #katniss #the-hunger-games #love

My nightmares are mostly about losing you. Then I wake up to find you're still with me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#hunger-games #love #mockingjay #suzanne-collins #love