We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving. And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.
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Related The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am. SUZANNE COLLINS How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sen... PABLO NERUDA Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Anyone who falls short of God’s grace, out of rage, can harm many. It our sacred duty to love... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The atmosphere was nice. It was so different from the start of the game. The fans are so much closer... MALLORIE WINN This is the Manifesto of Little Monster There is something heroic about the way my fans operate... LADY GAGA The fact is, yes, our customers are important, ... We do listen to our fans. We do survey our fans. ... DAVID MONTGOMERY With or without an embargo, we are here. And that is good. I think that's another victory we have in... FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE The last year and a half or so (ball movement) was something we haven't been the best at. But we're ... GINA CASTELLI Sometimes we simply don't want to face the truth about ourselves; the myth reads so much better. Som... SHEILA WALSH There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so muc... MURIEL BARBERY Although we may not have finished as high as we wanted, we were also going into the tournament with ... EZRA MORSE We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem. VINCE MCMAHON Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cann... JACK KORNFIELD We love working in the district and we enjoy our jobs, but we don't think that the district recogniz... KATHY PAUL Last year, we weren't getting this many people to our games. We're excited that the fans are happy, ... STANLEY ASUMNU We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill a... C.S. LEWIS We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to ... ROY BARNES So often we speak of finding our callings, when often our callings find us. We can choose to honor o... SHARON E. REED So many of our friends, families and fans lost their homes, not to mention their livelihoods, so we ... FRED LEBLANC This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ... JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, str... ROBERT MACCOLL ADAMS Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we a... BARACK OBAMA ... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering... THOMAS MOORE Customers vote with their feet and decide if they will stay or leave based on their perception of ho... JEANNE BLISS We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world o... LOIS LOWRY Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many pro... RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER So the nymphs they spoke, we kissed and laid. By noontime’s hour our love was made.... ROMAN PAYNE With this team we're cautiously optimistic. It's basically the same team from last year . . . so we'... AL MELNICK There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, 'Where hav... LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give plea... ALDOUS HUXLEY Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Plea... ALDOUS HUXLEY Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Ch... EVELYN UNDERHILL A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we must be willing to ext... OCHE OTORKPA We're a better team this year we are in a new district so it is kind of hard to tell what the compet... GLENN MCANINCH If Christians are all loving and full of God's grace (like some of us really are), do they truly lov... SOLANGE NICOLE Who we are and what we do reflects on us, our past has not been put to the past if we do not accept ... GARY F EVANS... I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personaliti... RICHARD LAGRAVENESE Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 In prayer we ... A. J. GOSSIP We lost to them last time and had to play Neillsville and went and beat them and hadn't lost since. ... DAVE MACARTHUR There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do... JON KATZ We thank our Team Members for their hard work and support of these plants. We'll do our best to help... BILL LOVETTE It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to... C. JOYBELL C. ... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperie... JULIAN OF NORWICH I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are... JAMES KAVANAUGH It's going to be a hard time; we can count on that. But with all the misery, what opportunities to s... MARGOT BENARY-ISBERT But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?'... C.S. LEWIS We haven't played well at home at all this year. It's very disappointing to the team and also to the... JUWAN HOWARD At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stan... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS We lost 12 seniors last year so I didn't know where we were going with our team and how we were goin... HAMID SIADAT ...So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose some... ROBERT FROST We need to ramp up our staff. We want them to be locked, loaded and trained so we're not scrambling ... DONNA BUTLER O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — her... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would... WENDELL BERRY I expected all of the team to qualify in something. We had a few mishaps, but we also had a few surp... ANDREW WASHINGTON My brand new sandals are a little stiff, and I think they'll give me blisters. But I love them, so I... INIO ASANO We did this last year, though. We beat these girls here last year, so we've got to do it again at th... BRIAN DOYON When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour... BRENNAN MANNING With the wind chill, it's forecast to be that way Monday, so we kind of got our fingers crossed. JOHN GRAHAM It's a pretty tough tournament. I was wanting to get in another tough tournament to see where we are... KENT HALL We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every... SUZANNE COLLINS GRACE is a word we can keep in our minds when we walk, dance, swim, talk, sing, do anything at all -... JAY WOODMAN Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing u... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen.... ARUNDHATI ROY We are very disappointed for our fans and our staff who were here in the grandstand. The main proble... JEAN TODT Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. SUE FITZMAURICE As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence... SHEA DARIAN (from chapter 20, "Bezalel") "We were getting it: worship was not so much what we did, bu... EUGENE H. PETERSON Since we do charge for our work, we do need the permit and licenses, but do it not so much for incom... BOB SOWDERS In moments of outrage, when we feebly seek vengeance, we can do one of two things with our newly kin... CARLEY MARIE DONAHUE I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so pri... JEREMY LIN We would rather be closer to home with our fans, but our fans will make it over there. We love road ... ANDREW HOOPER You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself... MOUTASEM ALGHARATI That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of GOD, who regards not the greatn... BROTHER LAWRENCE Our goal was to get their big guys tired so they couldn't score so much. That's about all we could d... SHANE CHILDRESS We are entrusting thousands of strangers with our innermost thoughts and feelings, and then we're ex... LUVVIE AJAYI There will always be wars," Maggie told him. "Yes," Reeve replied. "But there will also b... HAZEL B. WEST Just because the ones we love die (or fall out of our lives or disappear from the spinning of our sp... BRYONIE WISE The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, o... DAN BROWN You are not wrong," Laurence said. He had assumed as much himself, after all, in his Navy days: had ... NAOMI NOVIK I'm hoping our guys throw strikes and not be so much in awe of who we're facing. I don't want them t... LEE SMITH We had a good race this year, much better than last year (at county). I was not very happy at all la... ANDREW HUDSON When we go on tour, we would always think of the people in our country who are suffering with HIV an... DAVID MULOVHEDZI We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ... T.S. ELIOT The meet this weekend with Illinois will be an important one for our season. It is our senior meet a... CAREY FAGAN My concern is that we are not doing our job. If we were getting paid for what we do, we would all be... JASON LAMB Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our... DARRELL CALKINS The pain we cause will haunt our memories and eat at our souls. I do not seek forgiveness, only the ... HARLEY KING I've been waiting since Monday (to be back home). I'm excited that we get to play in front of our fa... JENNIFER SALEAUMUA The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be ve... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. EPICURUS We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you mus... SHRUTI UPADHAYA We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to acc... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to acc... WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpo... BRIAN L. WEISS We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as gua... PAUL TSONGAS All of us deplore the acts of terrorism that we have seen in these last minutes, and our hearts reac... EDWARD KENNEDY
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Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, ... SUZANNE COLLINS He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radia... SUZANNE COLLINS We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice. SUZANNE COLLINS He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospit... SUZANNE COLLINS Because...because...she came here with me. SUZANNE COLLINS My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger G... SUZANNE COLLINS We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo... SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I... SUZANNE COLLINS You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug. SUZANNE COLLINS Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. SUZANNE COLLINS Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza. SUZANNE COLLINS I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki... SUZANNE COLLINS Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho. SUZANNE COLLINS She crept up on me. SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared SUZANNE COLLINS How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving. SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a... SUZANNE COLLINS I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ... SUZANNE COLLINS It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima... SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss. SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask. "Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ... SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme... SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them. SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole. SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit... SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve. SUZANNE COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it. SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games. SUZANNE COLLINS Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates. And what... SUZANNE COLLINS I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade... SUZANNE COLLINS I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch... SUZANNE COLLINS Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots. SUZANNE COLLINS The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its... SUZANNE COLLINS hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ... SUZANNE COLLINS Not like this. He wanted it to be real. SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. SUZANNE COLLINS So what should we do with our last few days?” “I just want to spend every possible minute o... SUZANNE COLLINS Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. SUZANNE COLLINS Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he... SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt... SUZANNE COLLINS But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise. SUZANNE COLLINS Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around. SUZANNE COLLINS Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. SUZANNE COLLINS It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ... SUZANNE COLLINS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s... SUZANNE COLLINS But some secrets are too delicious not to share. SUZANNE COLLINS If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m... SUZANNE COLLINS In high school for a couple years we did archery. SUZANNE COLLINS