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I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip."
"Hey, Gale," I say.
"Thought you'd be gone by now," He says.
My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble."
"Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under.


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I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
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But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
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"What?" I ask.

"Leave the distri...
SUZANNE COLLINS Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says.
SUZANNE COLLINS As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.”
“And you're still not sor...
SUZANNE COLLINS His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still-
See how he feels the skin of ...
PATRICK NESS Wow, hi,’ Eight says, and when he speaks it’s with his own voice.

It’s him. It’s ...
PITTACUS LORE Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."

I still.

"I can't stomach your p...
TAHEREH MAFI it's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
h...
DAVID LEVITHAN Did you just tell us you're gay?" Asks Nick
"Yes."
"Okay," he says. Abby swats him. "What?...
BECKY ALBERTALLI If you ask me to kiss you, I will,” he says.
His fingers stroke the inside of my wrists, and ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS He lays me on the bed. I say, right before he kisses me again, “If you kiss me again, I’m going ...
RICK YANCEY I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, on...
JANDY NELSON Juliette,” he says.

“Yes?”

I can hear him breathing.

“Thank...
TAHEREH MAFI I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey"

"So damn much," he says back, it ...
JANDY NELSON Try it again," I said. "Kiss me."
"No," he said.
"Kiss me."
"No," And then he smiled....
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ I brought you this." Gale holds up a sheath. When I take it, I notice it holds a single, ordinary ar...
SUZANNE COLLINS Wait a second," Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one w...
VERONICA ROTH He looks at me. His face is dotted with raindrops but I think there are tears too.
'I love her...
SALLY GREEN Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
SUZANNE COLLINS All right, so give me some idea of what you can do," says Haymitch.

I can’t do anything...
SUZANNE COLLINS I’m sorry,” he tells me.

I sit down on the bed. He returns to the view of the street ...
COURTNEY SUMMERS God says to me with kind of a smile,
"Hey how would you like to be God awhile
And steer the ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I wouldn’t know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?'

'But the...
KAUI HART HEMMINGS He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly.
- Journe...
STEVE TOLTZ What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."
He tri...
RAINBOW ROWELL I let my head fall forward into his shoulder, breathing in his scent. "Now what do we do?"

JESSICA SORENSEN Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's you...
VERONICA ROTH Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many ...
THOMAS HARDY Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs ...
SUZANNE COLLINS We'll earn it all back today," I say, and we both plow into our plates. Even cold, it's one of the t...
SUZANNE COLLINS I love my mother.

My mother loves my dad.

Those two facts are undeniable.
JOHNA PASSARO Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?"
As always, he took a second to think about the answe...
SARAH DESSEN It’s midnight!” he says frantically, slapping at the door. “Call her. Call your roommate!” COLLEEN HOOVER How do you always know just what to say?" I ask.
His laugh rumbles through me. "Practice, I gu...
TERA LYNN CHILDS There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.

He knows I'll like a song befo...
RAINBOW ROWELL Any other questions?"
"Just one," I say. "What color are your eyes?" I want to know what he thi...
ALLY CONDIE His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heavi...
TAHEREH MAFI Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
TRACEY WARD I'm not with Rob," I say quickly. "Not anymore."
"You're not?" He's staring at me so intensely...
LAUREN OLIVER He smirks, shaking his head and letting his eyes wander. I watch him carefully, wondering what I can...
ASHLEY EARLEY I’ll be your family now,” he says.
“I love you,” I say.
I said that once, before I...
VERONICA ROTH This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and th...
MELINA MARCHETTA You adopted him," I said when Romeo sat on the coffee table in front of me.
"You love him," he ...
CAMBRIA HEBERT But we're not sleeping," he points out.
"well, I would be," I say, "if you would let me off the...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT Don't run away.
Im not running away. Im already gone.
-Lena and Ethan
KAMI GARCIA I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait wi...
VERONICA ROTH Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I...
SUZANNE COLLINS Tucker," I say. "I'm so glad you're still here."
I throw myself into his arms. He hugs me tight...
CYNTHIA HAND I feel like I’m going to die,’ he says.
‘Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?�...
DOUG MACLEOD He slouches,' DeeDee contributes.
'True--he needs to work on his posture,' Thelma says.
'Y...
LAUREN MYRACLE When I spot Alex leaning on his motorcycle waiting for me in the parking lot, my pulse skips a beat....
SIMONE ELKELES I do. I choose you,
which is to choose him and the others and to say
Everything I was...
JAMESON FITZPATRICK By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
SUZANNE COLLINS I watched him pitch the ball at a table neatly lined with six bowling pins, my stomach giving a litt...
BECCA FITZPATRICK So what's the deal with you and my sister?"
He laughs shortly and rubs the back of his neck li...
SOPHIE JORDAN and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off...
DAVID LEVITHAN His expression was strained. "I'm trying like hell to be the good guy here. I need you to go inside ...
JILL SHALVIS You look different." His words, normally crisp,are now sluggish.
"So do you," I say.And he does...
VERONICA ROTH I love you,” I whisper.
“What was that? I didn’t hear you.”
“Don’t push me.”...
KASIE WEST You love strapping me in, don’t you?”
“In any form,” he says, a wicked grin playing on...
E.L. JAMES And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms." I didn't need to see him to know he wore a smile....
BECCA FITZPATRICK Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp.

“I can’t,” he...
SUZANNE COLLINS You like me?” I repeat, because, well, I want to be really, really sure that I heard him right. Th...
CARRIE JONES I bought you something" Willows blurts out.
"You bought...What?"
Willow closes her eyes fo...
JULIA HOBAN Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My father gave me a ruined boy to compensate for the fact that he does not love me.

The ...
BRENNA YOVANOFF Are you mad?" I ask.
"I was." He glances at the ceiling then back at me. "Or confused, anyway. ...
JODY GEHRMAN Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.”

“Clary? It’s me, Emma.”

“Oh, Emma, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE For a moment, he looks back at me, and his farewell is in his smile. Then he turns to the stars. BETH REVIS Are you going to distract me by playing footsie?"
"Absolutely, princess," he says with a wink. ...
TERA LYNN CHILDS I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and l...
VERONICA ROTH He stopped and took my hand. "If we die, or if I die..."
He was speaking of dying, and I couldn...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I coax my palm into his lapel in search of my wish, returning his feverish kiss. "Checkmate, you son...
A.G. HOWARD Goodbye, Christian," I murmur.

"Ana, goodbye," he says softly, and he looks utterly, utte...
E.L. JAMES And then I kiss him for real, and he kisses me back, and his hands fist my hair. And we're kissing l...
BECKY ALBERTALLI I just run faster and hit the slowest of the lead boys. I wink and race by him. He smells like onion...
CARRIE JONES I visit him a few times downtown
while he paints.
We talk about how he's going to Spain SAMANTHA SCHUTZ Morpheus puts an arm around me. “You’re all right, blossom,” he says, his mouth at my...
A.G. HOWARD It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS Excuse me,’ I said cheerily. ‘Is the job still going?’ I pointed to the notice.

‘...
FIONA THRUST Luke and I stay nestled together until he nudges me.
We’d better get going, he says gently.<...
CAT PATRICK After a minute, I look up and the boy named Leo is staring at me. I stare back, but he doesn´t look...
MIA SHERIDAN Free, I think. They're free.
(is this why she joined them?)
I feel so-
...
PATRICK NESS Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?"
"I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing
and not breathing and hearts beating
between us a...
TAHEREH MAFI I should’ve died with my parents… than live in this world,” I say, my voice is faint
He a...
ALYANNA MALLARI I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,...
SIMONE ELKELES How are you feeling, man?" he asks me.

"Great," I tell him, and it is purely the truth. D...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Where's your car? Miles asks, glancing at him as he slams his door shut and slings his backpack over...
ALYSON NOEL Josh, you saw him," Tally says, "What did he look like? Did he look nice?"

"He looked lik...
SEVENTHSWAN People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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Always.
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Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
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His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
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P...
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"Yea...
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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 He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospit...
SUZANNE COLLINS Because...because...she came here with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger G...
SUZANNE COLLINS We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I...
SUZANNE COLLINS You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
SUZANNE COLLINS Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
SUZANNE COLLINS Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.
SUZANNE COLLINS I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki...
SUZANNE COLLINS Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.
SUZANNE COLLINS She crept up on me.
SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
SUZANNE COLLINS How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a...
SUZANNE COLLINS I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme...
SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
SUZANNE COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates.

And what...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch...
SUZANNE COLLINS Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
SUZANNE COLLINS The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...
SUZANNE COLLINS hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
SUZANNE COLLINS So what should we do with our last few days?”
“I just want to spend every possible minute o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
SUZANNE COLLINS Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt...
SUZANNE COLLINS But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
SUZANNE COLLINS Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
SUZANNE COLLINS It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s...
SUZANNE COLLINS But some secrets are too delicious not to share.
SUZANNE COLLINS If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m...
SUZANNE COLLINS In high school for a couple years we did archery.
SUZANNE COLLINS