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How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

Suzanne Collins
Energy, Saving, Littles

The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.

Suzanne Collins
Girl, Cheer, Fire
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

Suzanne Collins
Sick, Able, Hunger
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.189, Scholastic Inc.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

Suzanne Collins
War, Lines, Crosses
Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.824, Scholastic Inc.

Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.

Suzanne Collins
Kissing, Stopping, Madly In Love
Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.260, Scholastic Inc.

for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.

Suzanne Collins
Gale, Reason, Coexist
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

Suzanne Collins
Safe, Yeah, Shots
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.220, Scholastic Inc.

They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!

Suzanne Collins
Government, Voice, Safety

Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?

Suzanne Collins
Games, Tribute, Courses
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.51, Scholastic Inc.

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

Suzanne Collins
Being In Love, Stuff, Supposed To Be
Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

Suzanne Collins
President Snow, Mind, Ordinary
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.

Suzanne Collins
Kissing, Doors, Way
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

Suzanne Collins
Want, Today, Walks
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.9, Scholastic

You would think after all the hours I’d spent with Gale– watching him talk and laugh and frown– that I would know all there was to know about his lips. But I hadn’t imagined how warm they would feel pressed against my own. Or how those hands [...] could entrap me… I vaguely remember my fingers, curled tightly closed, resting on his chest.

Suzanne Collins
Thinking, Hands, Laughing

But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.

Suzanne Collins
Beautiful, Flower, Yellow
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.

Suzanne Collins
Lying, Believe, Boys
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.306, Scholastic Inc.

So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouragingly. “I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning…won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because…because…she came here with me.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Winning, Thinking
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.125, Scholastic Inc.

I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

Suzanne Collins
Father, Plants Growing, Voice
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.

Suzanne Collins
Rue, Kill Me, Catch Me

Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

Suzanne Collins
Hunting, Keys, Fishing
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.

Suzanne Collins
Preparation, Instruction, Destination
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena are rigged for certain attacks. And that if I can just get away from this section, I might be able to move out of reach of the launchers. I might also then fall straight into a pit of vipers, but I can't worry about that now.

Suzanne Collins
Moving, Fall, Games
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

Oh, well. At least my blood is flowing.

Suzanne Collins
Blood, Oh Well, Wells
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

Suzanne Collins
Eye, Thinking, Hands
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

Suzanne Collins
Force Fields, Nuts, Mags
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.851, Scholastic Inc.

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