I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?
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SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’... SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yea... SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say. "For what? Nothing's... SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k... SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b... SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e... SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l... SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right? -Finnick Odair SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f... SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good resp... SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must b... SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ... SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it. SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting? SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee... SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us. SUZANNE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them. SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha... SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it. SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable. SUZANNE COLLINS Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas... SUZANNE COLLINS If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without. SUZANNE COLLINS Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also... SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other. SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive. SUZANNE COLLINS I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?" "No,... SUZANNE COLLINS Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us. SUZANNE COLLINS In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom o... SUZANNE COLLINS You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real. SUZANNE COLLINS Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with... SUZANNE COLLINS To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that ga... SUZANNE COLLINS They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You wi... SUZANNE COLLINS Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show. SUZANNE COLLINS The question is, what are you going to do?" It turns out the question that's been eating away ... SUZANNE COLLINS As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have ... SUZANNE COLLINS In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his i... SUZANNE COLLINS What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How ... SUZANNE COLLINS We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear. SUZANNE COLLINS I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, ... SUZANNE COLLINS He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radia... SUZANNE COLLINS We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice. SUZANNE COLLINS