Peeta, you said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?<br /><br />Oh, let’s see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red plaid dress and your hair...it was in two braids instead of one. My father pointed you out when we were waiting to line up."<br /><br />Your father? Why?"<br /><br />He said, ‘See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner.'"<br /><br />What? You’re making that up!"<br /><br />No, true story. And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could’ve had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins