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Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

Suzanne Collins
Brave, Be Brave, Counting
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

Suzanne Collins
Rain, Tired, Home
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

Suzanne Collins
Cutting, Dark, Hands
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.258, Scholastic Inc.

Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Two, Mutts
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.446, Scholastic Inc.

The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again.

Suzanne Collins
Lying, Moon, Night
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.442, Scholastic Inc.

And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick - who never spoke much. Tick - who shared her food. Tick - who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more. Gregor pressed Boots's fingers against his lips and felt scalding tears begin to slide down his cheeks. He hadn't cried, not the whole time he'd been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. But somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow.

Suzanne Collins
Baby, Army, Sacrifice

I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.

Suzanne Collins
Crazy, Heart, Years
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you!

Suzanne Collins
Love You, Remember, Cinna
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.

Suzanne Collins
Flower, Games, Down And
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.

Suzanne Collins
Hate, Sick, Honest

In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.

Suzanne Collins
Comfort, Want, Ends
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.163, Scholastic Inc.

So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality.” “They saw her shoot,” says Peeta with a smile. “Actually, I saw her shoot, for real, for the first time. I'm about to put in a formal request myself.” “You're that good?” Haymitch asks me.

Suzanne Collins
Real, Personality, Mentor
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.233, Scholastic Inc.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

Suzanne Collins
Games, Long, Focus

Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!

Suzanne Collins
Hey, Finnick
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.

Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. “For you.” I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.

Suzanne Collins
Hands, Giving, Water
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.365, Scholastic Inc.

But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?” “It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,” I say. “It's meant to be pretty,” whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color.

Suzanne Collins
Fashion, Thinking, Color

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

Suzanne Collins
Knowing, Labels, Lambs
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.293, Scholastic Inc.

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

Suzanne Collins
Rising, Sun, Persist
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.9, Scholastic

He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.

Suzanne Collins
Mean, Fighting, Boys
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

Suzanne Collins
Two, Knowing, Different
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Suzanne Collins
Pain, Clueless, Years
"Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

Suzanne Collins
Want, What You Want, Acquire
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.152, Scholastic Inc.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

Suzanne Collins
Secret, Share, Delicious
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.171, Scholastic Inc.

I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.

Suzanne Collins
Wish, Would Be, Want
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.389, Scholastic Inc.

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.

Suzanne Collins
Eye, Sun, Sleepy
Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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