Traditions [aren't what] I'm worried about right now. My number one worry is trying to win the next game. Of course it is a big game and I think we'll see a little more heart and a little more emotion out of our team.


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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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