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And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and

And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.

Suzanne Collins
Mother, Wall, Taken
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

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Hunger
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.95, Scholastic Inc.

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Suzanne Collins
Real, Being Real, Wanted
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.73, Scholastic Inc.

Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .

Suzanne Collins
Mean, Winning, Simple

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Missing, Remember
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.

Suzanne Collins
Dark, Space, Light
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

Suzanne Collins
Eye, Mind, Trying
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

I killed you. And you. And you.

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Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

Suzanne Collins
Lonely, Matter, I Can
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.198, Scholastic Inc.

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

Suzanne Collins
Kissing Him, Able, Let Him Go
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.197, Scholastic Inc.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

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

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.

Suzanne Collins
Pigs, Katniss, Attention
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

Suzanne Collins
Katniss, Trying, Sincere
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.

Suzanne Collins
Trying, Naked, Littles
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.775, Scholastic Inc.

At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

Suzanne Collins
Sexy, Witty, Cocky
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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." The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you.

Suzanne Collins
Thinking, Color, Tears
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.

Suzanne Collins
Eye, Men, Tree
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.130, Scholastic Inc.

When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch

Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire, Enemy, Arena

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

Suzanne Collins
Broken Heart, Pain, Leaving

Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Suzanne Collins
Katniss, People, Bags

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

Suzanne Collins
Together, Flailing, Muscles
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1183, Scholastic Inc.

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

Suzanne Collins
Kids, Watches, Way
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

Suzanne Collins
Mean, Winning, Games

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.

Suzanne Collins
Fall, Taken, Thinking

Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created. You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say. Get dressed, you worthless thing.

Suzanne Collins
Thinking, Design, Promise

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