We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who i can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.


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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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