It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series.


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"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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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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