Suzanne Collins quote: "I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"<br />"No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded."

If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
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Destroying things is much easier than making them.
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And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
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Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
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I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
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Aim higher in case you fall short.
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I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
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My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
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You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
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While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
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She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
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When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
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He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
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I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
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I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
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You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.
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What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How ...
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We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radia...
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We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.
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Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I...
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Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.
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Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.
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She crept up on me.
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For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a...
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It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.
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Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme...
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At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
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I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
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All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he c...
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You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't p...
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Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
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Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
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She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
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They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
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Some walks you have to take alone.
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Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
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I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
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Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
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I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain,...
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept o...
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It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll k...
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All right, so give me some idea of what you can do," says Haymitch.

I can’t do anything...
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Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in co...
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If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, ...
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Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
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hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...
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I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch...
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It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea...
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
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In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situa...
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I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol ...
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Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate h...
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You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.
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We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self destruction.
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I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think...
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No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Pe...
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Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to t...
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And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind,...
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I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're ...
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You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile.
"Didn't you?...
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Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner
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Deep in the meadow, under the willow
a bed of grass, a soft green pillow
lay down your he...
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I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.
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Peeta opens his mouth for the first bite without hesitation. He swallows, then frowns slightly. "The...
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I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the sam...
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I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's...
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I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm re...
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I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger G...
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Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to set...
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I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Al...
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The War Has Been Declared.
Your Ally Been Ensnared.
It Is Now Or It Is Never.
Break T...
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I haven't figured out a rainbow yet, They come so quickly and leave so soon. I never have enough tim...
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If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.” “It is true,” I admit. �...
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The credit for the survivors’ escape has landed squarely on Gale’s shoulders, although he’s lo...
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What do you mean, costly?
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Sin embargo, los odio. Aunque claro, ahora odio a casi todo el mundo, Sobretodo a mi.
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Why didn’t we before?” I say. “Because it’s costly. But everyone agrees this is the thing to...
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That you don’t have to be jealous of him anymore?
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More than ninety percent of the district’s population is dead. The remaining eight hundred or so a...
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I saw Peeta yesterday. Through the glass.” “What’d you think?” I ask. “Something selfish,�...
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Gale offered to come with me to 2, but I could see I was tearing him away from his work with Beetee....
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it’s full of the remains of those who tried to flee. Some were incinerated entirely. But others, p...
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The final days of training ends with our private sessions. (...) There's a lot of kidding about it a...
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I want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you. -Peeta Mellark
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That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop th...
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the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone....
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Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all t...
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But one day I’ll have to explain about my nightmares. Why they came. Why they won’t ever really ...
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He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – t...
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You call that a kiss?
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I just... I just miss him. And hate being so alone. Does he miss me? He must
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Es mejor no rendirte a ello. Resulta diez veces más difícil recuperarte que hundirte.
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How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?
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Whatever it takes to break you.
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Eu vou ser o Tordo.
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Tiny, searing stabs. Wherever the droplets of mist touch my skin.
"Run!" I scream at the others...
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And did anyone here bring me food? I'm famished."

[Gregor's] fingers found a str...
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Creo que Peeta dio con la tecla al comentar que nos destruyéramos entre nosotros para dejar que otr...
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No more kisses for you, until you have eaten !
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Umut,korkudan güçlü tek duygudur.
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Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.
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It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.
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Rue,, la niña que, cuando le preguntas por lo que mas ama en el mundo, contesta que la musica, nada...
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This is a man who spent his adult life at the bottom of a bottle, trying to anesthetize himself agai...
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We showed him that clip of you singing ‘The Hanging Tree.’ It was never aired, so the Capitol co...
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for Katniss Everdeen. At the mention of my name, Peeta’s face contorts in effort. “Katniss . . ....
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Se acabaron todos esos meses que me consideraba un ser maravilloso. Por fin me ve como soy en realid...
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So who else volunteered?
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He asks Peeta if, given tonight’s demonstration, he has any parting thoughts for Katniss Everdeen....
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I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perver...
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I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia
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Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.
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But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavi...
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There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the r...
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Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks ...
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How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I sa...
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That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you d...
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Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.
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Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, wit...
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Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start...
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I wrap my arms around his neck, feel his arms hesitate before they embrace me. Not as steady as they...
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How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t...
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Oh, he's on top of it. It was volunteer only, but he pretended not to notice me waving my hand in th...
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No one knows what to do with you, girlie.
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Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.
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An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.
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You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.
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I killed you. And you. And you.
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I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several ti...
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I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.
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I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.
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Twirl for me.
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I hear Peeta's voice in my head.

She has no idea. The effect she can have.

Ob...
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I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant w...
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Es como un juego, repetitivo, incluso algo tedioso después de más de veinte
años. Aun así, ...
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I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.
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then smiles. “Well, if I end up going to the
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May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket
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You can’t,” says Peeta. He holds out his hand into seemingly empty space. There’s a sharp zap ...
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Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.
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His skin, his whole being, radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking i...
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It takes some adjusting from a bow to a gun, but by the end of the day, I’ve got the best score in...
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May the odds be ever in your Favour
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My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.
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If I burn, you burn with me
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I WILL KILL SNOW.
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I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.
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Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and...
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To me, there's no point in talking about things that might have been.
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When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Ha...
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Peeta looks at the glass again and puts it together. "You mean this will make me puke?" My prep team...
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Deberías despertarme -le digo, porque yo interrumpo su sueño dos o tres veces cuando tengo una noc...
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Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them...
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And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the...
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They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.
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He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice.
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The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.
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Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?”
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Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that's when I see myself on the telev...
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How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?
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I like Books...
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when I have survived the worst, opening my eyes underwater, sniffing water into my sinuses and snort...
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El odio que siento hacia él, hacia la chica fantasma, hacia todo, es tan real e inmediato que me ah...
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It’s enough to die of
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They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.
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What about you?"

"Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.
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I can only form one clear thought.

This is no place for a girl on fire.
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I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to th...
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Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
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Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a fi...
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A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.
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'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenage...
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Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
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Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
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Is that why you hate me?" I ask.
"Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also...
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Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
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I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me...
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I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
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Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
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But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
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But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
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Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
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Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
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Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
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Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
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Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
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To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that ga...
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They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You wi...
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In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his i...
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My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger G...
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We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
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How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
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I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ...
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At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
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If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
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By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
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As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
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