Suzanne Collins quote: "Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams."

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea...
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Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
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Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
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Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas...
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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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I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces...
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I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
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I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
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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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That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
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Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
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Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
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The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the pos...
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Tick, tock.
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It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
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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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So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad...
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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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We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our...
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Aim higher in case you fall short.
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So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every...
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I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
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I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no l...
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The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. ...
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I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
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So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
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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 know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.
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I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
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Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
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You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
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Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
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Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for th...
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And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anywa...
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One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Alrea...
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My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter....
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And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness...
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I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
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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 realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...
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Katniss. I remember about the bread.
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Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone st...
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Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
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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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Fire beats roses again.
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In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
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Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did fo...
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You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
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I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
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You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s...
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I had to do that. At least once.
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No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
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Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...
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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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Stay with me.

Always.
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I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pl...
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I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
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No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
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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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Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distr...
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I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
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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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What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with bo...
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Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
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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 y...
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But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...
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At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
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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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I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
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They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
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That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
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Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
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I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
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I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
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Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
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Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
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Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
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I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
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There are much worse games to play.
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Some walks you have to take alone.
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You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y...
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I must have loved you a lot.
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Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
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What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
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You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
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The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
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You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
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I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
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Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
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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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I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
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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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Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
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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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Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
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It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
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While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
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Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
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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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Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
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Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
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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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The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
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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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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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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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But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
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Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
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It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
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If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
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Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
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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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Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
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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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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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I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
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Do you find this...distracting?
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Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
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Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
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And if we burn, you burn with us.
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Destroying things is much easier than making them.
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If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
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And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
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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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If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
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Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
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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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Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.
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Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.
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I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No,...
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Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.
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In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom o...
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You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.
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Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with...
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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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Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.
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The question is, what are you going to do?"
It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
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As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have ...
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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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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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I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, ...
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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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He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospit...
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Because...because...she came here with me.
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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 had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo...
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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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You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
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Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
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Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.
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I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki...
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Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.
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She crept up on me.
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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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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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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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It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima...
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It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.
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Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ...
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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 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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You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.
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I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
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Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates.

And what...
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade...
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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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Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
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The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...
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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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Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
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So what should we do with our last few days?”
“I just want to spend every possible minute o...
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Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
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Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he...
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Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt...
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But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.
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Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
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Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
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It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ...
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And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s...
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But some secrets are too delicious not to share.
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If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m...
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In high school for a couple years we did archery.
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Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

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Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

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