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a very elegant display of about 20 wall portraits on easels featuring children throughout the world.


Barbara Collins

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HUNTER S. THOMPSON My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some...
JONATHAN WINTERS We're going to ask artists in each state where the exhibit travels to paint portraits of all the ser...
ANNETTE POLAN I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all t...
REN NG But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The VPTC has put together a world-class event, featuring 31 presentations and over 20 company exhibi...
BILL CLARK When you live with a 20/20 mindset your path is straight, vision is clear, and decisions are precise...
FARSHAD ASL I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That'...
PAUL MOONEY Honestly, I think Lily Collins and Felicity Jones. I think they're very classy, they're eleg...
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN He is working on oak stands to display military things on. It will be a hands-on display and childre...
LINDA WOODS Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr...
THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b...
THE CHILDREN People still come to me for large portraits of children and families. And I still enjoy taking photo...
BARBARA COLLINS The children created pop art portraits of themselves by tracing over a digital picture on the comput...
JAMES MCBRIDE Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a ...
SUSANNA MOODIE There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the...
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") Next time I expect you to act a little friendlier and remember that we would like to get out of here...
TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
TRACEY WARD Millions of children throughout the world are being bought and sold like chattel and used as sex sla...
CAROL BELLAMY Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall...
PETER J. TOMASI We're getting ready to send out invitations, and on Feb. 20, we'll be bringing the art to the school...
ELIZABETH ZGORECKI Back in the '60s, Santa Barbara County was known for screw-cap wines -- that's what you'd drink at a...
LEE TOMKOW As humans, we're designed to run about 20-22 miles and then you hit the wall. Taking walk breaks pus...
JEFF GALLOWAY Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I'm so heartbroken that Sunnyside is closing. Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Ponder offered such a wonderful,...
ELLA RIOS Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.
LARRY HAGMAN Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's someth...
DAVID VITTER It was a very elegant line, the Royal Viking.
MARGUERITE DALIANES In the world of insurance, $20 million in punitive damages is considered a very substantial jury awa...
CHRISTOPHER OPALINSKI Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's so...
DAVID VITTER Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, come forward!
KEN ROSATO What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in c...
J. G. BALLARD We haven't been in form in recent weeks but the players gave the right answer on the field today. It...
RUDI ASSAUER I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come ...
LARRY ALEXANDER I think that the collection is very much sophisticated and very woman. It's elegant, not at all spor...
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER So, for them to publicly display themselves in that manner of the Easter Egg Roll, which is for chil...
MICHAEL JACKSON I love portraits. I've always been fascinated by the fact that when you put a frame on something you...
NUNO ROQUE We were sick about that. Kerry Collins is not the fastest guy, first of all.
VONNIE HOLLIDAY I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by ho...
DEAN KAMEN My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
RICHARD AVEDON The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
C. JOYBELL C. Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist orga...
PAT ROBERTS The apostles of Christ set about on mission throughout the world and St Mark evangelist went to Egyp...
AGHASON PAUL The apostles of Christ set about on mission throughout the world and St Mark evangelist went to Egyp...
AGHASON ANBA PAUL The portraits people will see in the show are from a phase of Dunn's career that most of his fans do...
WALT REED The portraits people will see in the show are from a phase of Dunn's career that most of his fans do...
WALT REED Fort Collins is a good team, and playing a team like this will make us a very, very good team.
DAVE AUDAY I loved Barbara and am deeply saddened by her passing. Barbara Bel Geddes will be missed by many, bu...
VICTORIA PRINCIPAL I thought (Collins) was very effective. It appeared that they listened.
JOAN MCDONALD has literally, we believe, avoided the spread of this very malicious virus to personal computers thr...
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN The selection panel had a daunting task to choose 20 players for the game, but we do fell that this ...
DAN FULLER I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
HOWARD HODGKIN We were very negative about the whole project, but once we saw the writing on the wall, we all got o...
CHUCK BENNETT We are asking families to share their pictures and stories with us and we will display them througho...
BONNIE CASTILLE A 20/20 mindset produces uncontainable joy and peace. These fruits allow you to live more creatively...
FARSHAD ASL A 20/20 mindset eradicates any source of fear, doubt, and uncertainty. It produces a balanced life i...
FARSHAD ASL I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.
BELLA THORNE They all had it going. They put on a display. They really put on a display.
ADAM KENNEDY A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by ...
CARLOS WALLACE Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are a thousand miles about
CYRIL TOURNEUR The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world o...
YEHUDA AMICHAI As we traveled to more than 20 countries to produce 'Rx for Survival,' we recorded scenes that will ...
LARRY KLEIN We're very concerned about the safety of our children.
CHIP KIMBALL I'm a booster of Terry Collins .
TOMMY LASORDA I'd say we've already sold about 20 - 15 to 20 - and it's still very early in the season.
BOYD MOFFETT You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference ...
LAO TZU We take our responsibility to protect children in our care very seriously. Throughout Children's, ou...
BLAIR SADLER My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve...
FRANCOIS NARS We definitely want it to be very ethnic and very, very elegant.
ALLEN WEST A monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.
PRINCE CHARLES I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE There's a desire to protect children from the horrors of the world at the same time other children a...
DEBORAH ELLIS It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When you tear down a display, that's very counterproductive.
KATIE WALKER It's our duty to hang a picture of our kids on that (Military Wall). There were some pictures, but i...
LISA DURANTE Wow!” gasped Julia. They saw 20 or more young children of every sort lying
on the cold, bare ...
MAGDA M. OLCHAWSKA I was very flattered they wanted the display.
BETTY RODDAM I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portrai...
FAY GODWIN I have very good friends on Wall Street.
STEVE MNUCHIN Is There Anybody Out There?
PINK FLOYD We had 500 students attending workshops from 20 middle school and high schools throughout the Arizon...
JASON CARNEY The kids were very excited to see their piece of art up on the wall.
CINDY CARDER I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL They're self-portraits of the way that I feel about myself physically as opposed to the way society ...
SARAH REEVES In times of tragedy and disaster, children sometimes display symptoms that are akin to post-traumati...
ERIC GREEN Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married w...
JAN CHIPCHASE The T. rex is a big mystery because we only have about 20 good specimens in the world,
JAPHETH BOYCE I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.
JES MACALLAN Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Allison and Greg embody all that Calhoun is about: deep-feeling, well-rounded, worldly people who ar...
DAVID GOLDBERG I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew ...
PADGETT POWELL Traditionally we associate power with the display of strength, winning, and having lots of money and...
YASMIN DAVAR The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting ti...
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GAIL COLLINS It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea...
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FRANCIS COLLINS Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to br...
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DOUG COLLINS I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
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GAIL COLLINS Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
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So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
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BILLY COLLINS Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat...
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WILLIAM COLLINS And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
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SUZANNE COLLINS I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
SUZANNE COLLINS I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
SUZANNE COLLINS That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
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SUZANNE COLLINS The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the pos...
SUZANNE COLLINS Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me...
SUZANNE COLLINS So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad...
SUZANNE COLLINS I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
SUZANNE COLLINS We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our...
SUZANNE COLLINS Aim higher in case you fall short.
SUZANNE COLLINS So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

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

Always.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pl...
SUZANNE COLLINS I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
SUZANNE COLLINS No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
SUZANNE COLLINS You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't p...
SUZANNE COLLINS Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distr...
SUZANNE COLLINS I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
SUZANNE COLLINS What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with bo...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
SUZANNE COLLINS There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to y...
SUZANNE COLLINS But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...
SUZANNE COLLINS At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
SUZANNE COLLINS She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
SUZANNE COLLINS I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
SUZANNE COLLINS They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
SUZANNE COLLINS I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
SUZANNE COLLINS I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
SUZANNE COLLINS Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
SUZANNE COLLINS There are much worse games to play.
SUZANNE COLLINS Some walks you have to take alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y...
SUZANNE COLLINS I must have loved you a lot.
SUZANNE COLLINS Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
SUZANNE COLLINS What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
SUZANNE COLLINS You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
SUZANNE COLLINS It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
SUZANNE COLLINS The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
SUZANNE COLLINS For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
SUZANNE COLLINS You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
SUZANNE COLLINS I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
SUZANNE COLLINS Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
SUZANNE COLLINS It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
SUZANNE COLLINS While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
SUZANNE COLLINS Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
SUZANNE COLLINS The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
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 My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE 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