“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?”

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins - “What must it be like, I wonder, to...” 1

Similar quotes

“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?”

Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games
Read more

“How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?''It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo.'Ah!' said Sam. 'And where will they live? That's what I often wonder.”

J.R.R. Tolkien
Read more

“Raven: So Alexander, now we know what we do all day. What do you do?Alexander: I spend it thinking about you.”

Ellen Schreiber
Read more

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”

Miranda July
Read more

“Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them?”

Jetta Carleton
Read more