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If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again. (Suzanne Collins)
Here's some advice. Stay alive. View quote
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I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. View quote
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Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love. View quote
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But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. View quote
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I knew you'd kiss me." "How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention. View quote
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So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home. View quote
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There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him. View quote
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The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying. View quote
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That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish. View quote
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If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?" "Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive." "Mockingjays do. (Suzanne Collins)
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be. View quote
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Katniss.... he's still trying to keep you alive. View quote
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No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says. View quote
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You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive. View quote
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Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams. View quote
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Don't let him take you from me. View quote
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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 kill your children. View quote
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Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food. View quote
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I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.' Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out.' I reply. View quote
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That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us. (Suzanne Collins)
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die. View quote
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Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you." "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. "Whatever it takes to break you. View quote
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Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies. View quote
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Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that. View quote
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