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ARTHUR MILLER They outplayed us tonight. They really played great, it was clear they came to play and we didn't, i...
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BRIAN CHAMPION It was a pretty good job all around; the bats finally came through for us.
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MATT GORDON They didn't really check it . . . It was just purposeless.
WANDA JACKSON I was hoping they would win and they came through. We had all lifetime-best times.
BILL KENNEDY It was fairly nothing. It came through and had a good stiff wind, but that was about it.
GARY WOOD It was awful and they have said that Brian must fight for the title again,
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DICK WILDT Bars were a good event for us tonight. It wasn't something they are incapable of. They just came out...
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ANTHONY CAMPANELLA He served with distinction, weathered storms, cold and heat. He came through it all real well and wa...
EARL HUDSON That was the match everyone was waiting for. I am sure they will see each other again. It was a batt...
BOB ANNIBALLI It was a very competitive regional. We fought hard for everything tonight. Nothing came easy for us.
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It was just a classic college basketball game. And our young guys came through.
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SAMUEL WEST A thousand people came through here tonight and that's no exaggeration.
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ALEX TANGUAY They really came through when they had to. That was phenomenal.
BILLY PIERCE I have no idea how we (meaning his father) will celebrate tonight. We had a lot of fun this week tog...
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I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
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That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
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Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
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Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
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Tick, tock.
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It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
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I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
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Aim higher in case you fall short.
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"I just want to spend every...
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I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
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So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
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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.
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You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
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Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
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Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
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I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
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I knew you'd kiss me."
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Katniss. I remember about the bread.
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Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
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Fire beats roses again.
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You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
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I had to do that. At least once.
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No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
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SUZANNE COLLINS
Stay with me.
Always.
SUZANNE COLLINS
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SUZANNE COLLINS
I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
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No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
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You have a... remarkable memory."
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I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
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Forget your woes and...
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What about Gale?"
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"And it was okay with bo...
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Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
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At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
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She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
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I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
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They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS
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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.
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Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
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Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
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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...
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There are much worse games to play.
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Some walks you have to take alone.
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SUZANNE COLLINS
I must have loved you a lot.
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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...
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You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
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SUZANNE COLLINS
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
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You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
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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 ...
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And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
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I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
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Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
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Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
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You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
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Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
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It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
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While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
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Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
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Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
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Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
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Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
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But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
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The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
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She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
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When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
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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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