Suzanne Collins Quotes About Sleep

• Peeta, ¿cómo es que nunca sé cuándo tienes una pesadilla?". Le digo. "No lo sé. No creo que grite ni que me agite ni nada. Simplemente vuelvo en mí, paralizado por el terror", dice. "Deberías despertarme", digo, pensando en cómo puedo interrumpir su sueño dos o tres veces en una mala noche. En lo mucho que puede tardar en calmarme. "No es necesario. Mis pesadillas suelen ser sobre perderte", dice. "Estoy bien una vez que me doy cuenta de que estás aquí.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

• Eres pintor. Eres panadero. Te gusta dormir con las ventanas abiertas. Nunca tomas azúcar en el té. Y siempre te anudas dos veces los cordones de los zapatos.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Katniss, Tea

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.271, Scholastic Inc.

• Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say. "For what? Nothing's going on here," he says. "Besides, I like watching you sleep. You don't scowl. Improves your looks a lot." This, of course, brings on a scowl that makes him grin.

  Suzanne Collins

  Couple, Sleep, Looks

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.260, Scholastic Inc.

• but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Safe, Slipping

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.159, Scholastic Inc.

• Duérmete", me dice suavemente. Su mano me aparta los mechones sueltos de la frente. A diferencia de los besos y caricias escenificados hasta ahora, este gesto parece natural y reconfortante. No quiero que pare y no lo hace. Sigue acariciándome el pelo cuando me duermo.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Sleep, Kissing

• In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.392, Scholastic Inc.

• I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Iodine, Water

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

• Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Sleep, Buried

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.288, Scholastic Inc.

• Dawn comes before sleep does.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Dawn, Doe

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

• Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Sleep, Who Cares

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.153, Scholastic Inc.

• Le subo el saco de dormir hasta la barbilla y le beso la frente, no por el público, sino por mí. Porque estoy tan agradecida de que esté aquí, no muerto junto al arroyo como había pensado. Estoy tan contenta de no tener que enfrentarme a Cato sola.

  Suzanne Collins

  Grateful, Sleep, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.318, Scholastic Inc.

• My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Dark, Peaceful

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.163, Scholastic Inc.

• What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Mean, Sleep

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.298, Scholastic UK

• My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger, still worn but not so beaten-down. Prim’s face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named. My mother was very beautiful once, too. Or so they tell me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Mother, Sleep

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

• The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred.

  Suzanne Collins

  Believe, Sleep, Trying

  "Gregor the Overlander". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2003.

• Tick, tock,” whispers Wiress. I guide her in front of me and get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. “Tick, tock.” “Tick, tock,” I agree softly. “It’s time for bed. Tick, tock. Go to sleep.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Sleep, Bed

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.477, Scholastic UK

• I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Sleep, Dawn

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.153, Scholastic Inc.

• ¿Tu color favorito... es el verde?" "Así es". Entonces se me ocurre algo que añadir. "Y el tuyo es el naranja". "¿Naranja?" No parece convencido. "No naranja brillante. Pero suave. Como la puesta de sol", le digo. "Al menos, eso me dijiste una vez". "Oh." Cierra los ojos brevemente, quizá intentando evocar esa puesta de sol, y luego asiente con la cabeza. "Gracias. Pero se le escapan más palabras. "Eres pintor. Eres panadero. Te gusta dormir con las ventanas abiertas. Nunca tomas azúcar en el té. Y siempre te anudas dos veces los cordones de los zapatos.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sunset, Sleep, Eye

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