#games

Growing up changes more than playground games and body shapes. ↗

— Emma Cameron

#changes #growing-up #playground-games #change

I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#death

But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#hunger-games #death

Only.. I want to do die as myself ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#games #hunger #katniss #peeta #roof

This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#demons #games #death

Greta is great, but he's a little...extremely...moody. Take my birthday last year. At the stroke of midnight, he appeared at my door. "I wrote this poem for you," he said, shoving a piece of crumpled paper into my hands. 'The world must burn. Lava exploding into faces. Their skeletons are screaming now. No survivors. - From Greta' "Oh...uh...wow..." I began. "Don't bother thanking me," he said. "I just wanted to comfort you for being one year closer to the grave. Of course, I failed miserably, because comfort doesn't exist in this universe. ↗

— Bratniss Everclean

#gale #greta #hunger-games #parody #death

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#games #death

Vera had not sensed my approach. She was peering into the instrument and turning knobs with child-like seriousness and ineptitude. It was obvious that she had never used a microscope before. I stole closer to her, and then I said, "Boo!" She jerked her head away from the eyepiece. "Hello," I said. "You scared me to death," she said. "Sorry," I said, and I laughed. These ancient games go on and on. It's nice they do. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#games #laugh #death

Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#design

Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his days were spent being consumed rather than consuming. ↗

— Tom Bissell

#tom-bissell #video-games #why-video-games-matter #design