Favorite Quotes from the series
The Hunger Games
- ' I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head. "Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what's her name?" says Caesar. Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I've had a crush on her ever since I can remember.But I'm pretty sure she didn't know I was alive until the reaping." Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to. "She have another fellow?" asks Caesar. "I don't know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta. "So here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can't turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly. "I don't think it's going to work out. Winning . . . won't help in my case," says Peeta. "Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because . . . because . . . she came here with me." ' -Caesar Flickerman and Peeta Mellark
- "Remember, we are madly in love, so it's alright to kiss me anytime you feel like it." -Peeta Mellark
- “Peeta, you said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?"
"Oh, let’s see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red plaid dress and your hair...it was in two braids instead of one. My father pointed you out when we were waiting to line up."
"Your father? Why?"
"He said, ‘See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner.'"
"What? You’re making that up!"
"No, true story. And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could’ve had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.” -- Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen
Catching Fire
- "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you." - Peeta Mellark
- "My nightmares are usually about losing you." - Peeta Mellark
- "I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever." - Peeta Mellark
- "Want a sugar cube?" - Finnick Odair
- “I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.” - Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen
Mockingjay
- "You love me. Real or Not Real?" "Real." - Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen
- "I am the mockingjay. The symbol of rebellion." - Katniss Everdeen