46 quotes found
“You could do a lot worse.”
“I had to do that. At least once.”
“Aim higher in case you fall short.”
“Not like this. He wanted it to be real.”
“Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.”
“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”
“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare? I say.I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror, he says.You should wake...”
“But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together."I'm not glad," says Peeta. "I wish we had waited until the whole thing was done officially."This takes even ...”
“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
“Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.”
“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”
“Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
“I'm going to wake Peeta," I say."No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his."Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We positi...”
“I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. ”
“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewha...”
“I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.”
“Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner”
“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
“Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
“The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private age...”
“Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.”
