“How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking up." Something in my expression stops him. "Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

American author and television writer

Suzanne Collins is an American author and television writer. She is best known for writing the young adult dystopian series The Hunger Games. She also wrote The Underland Chronicles, a children’s fantasy series. Her work is closely associated with fiction for younger readers, especially stories set in imagined worlds shaped by conflict, survival, and power.