Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.


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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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I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
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Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
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Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
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I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
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Do you find this...distracting?
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Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
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Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
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And if we burn, you burn with us.
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Destroying things is much easier than making them.
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Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
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If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
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And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
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Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
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If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
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Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
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Is that why you hate me?" I ask.
"Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also...
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Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.
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Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.
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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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