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It's the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds. (Suzanne Collins)
You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together. View quote
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How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” "Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say. View quote
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for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts. View quote
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As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. View quote
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ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am. View quote
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So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta. View quote
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‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising? View quote
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Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. View quote
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The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us. View quote
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Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. (Suzanne Collins)
It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable. View quote
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Life in District 12 isn't really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it. View quote
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I start to crack at four hundred to one. View quote
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I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan. View quote
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I don't know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing. View quote
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because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be. View quote
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Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first." Of course I do. Gale. View quote
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They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out. View quote
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Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. View quote
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Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig. (Suzanne Collins)
He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. "You're going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick. View quote
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The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it? View quote
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The star-crossed lovers. View quote
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For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea. View quote
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