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Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted houseand to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.


William Collins

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SUZANNE COLLINS Eu vou ser o Tordo.
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HOPE MIRRLEES Each day is a gift
To embrace and welcome
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I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Stay with me.

Always.
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I'm j...
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Forget your woes and...
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"And it was okay with bo...
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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