She and I had exchanged a few text messages, although they had been mostly to remind me just how pissed she’d be if I started anything with her asshole of a brother. The same asshole who had last night said, ‘If you ever hurt her, psycho Sid, I’ll kill you.’ Naturally, I’d replied by dangling him over the balcony until he begged me to pull him back up.

It had been kind of fun.” (Salem)


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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.
SUZANNE COLLINS
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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I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ...
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After all, suicide is contagious.
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It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima...
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It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.
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Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ...
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Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme...
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At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
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If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
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By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
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