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“I'm ordered to a week of bed rest and I don't object because I feel so lousy. Not just my heel and my tailbone. My whole body aches with exhaustion. So I let my mother doctor me and feed me breakfa...”
“hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.”
“Since Ive been home Ive been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me instead of brushing aside any offer of help, as I did for years out of anger. Letting...”
“I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They fo...”
“Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one had the r...”
“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
“And its all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this wouldve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone els...”
“but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't cat...”
“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 p...”
“Peeta" I said "Stay with me"I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always”
“I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.”
“We are what no one wants to miss at the party. I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.”
“He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.”
“I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.”
“They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.”
“What did Finnick Odair want? he asks.I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation of Finnick. He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets, I say in my best sed...”
“I had to do that. At least once.”
“I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.”
“I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.”
“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 the...”
