Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone


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One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Alrea...
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My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter....
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And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness...
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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."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain,...
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I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...
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Katniss. I remember about the bread.
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Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone st...
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Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
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At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
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Fire beats roses again.
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In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
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Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did fo...
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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 just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
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You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s...
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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."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
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Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...
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All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he c...
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Stay with me.

Always.
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I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pl...
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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."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't p...
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Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distr...
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I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
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Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
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What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"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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There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to y...
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But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...
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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.
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That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
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Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
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I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
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I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
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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...
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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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