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“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”
“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”
“You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future.”
“She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully....”
“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”
“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice! Theres dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitchs acerbic laugh fills the studio. H...”
“Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, 'How do you bear it?'Finnick looks at me in disbelief. 'I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I ...”
“I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good when really it's for there own good.”
“And if we burn, you burn with us.”
“Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask."Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective think...”
“Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people wh...”
“They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwas...”
“I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol has just bombed a hospital full of unarmed men, women and children. There will be no survivors." ...”
“If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.”
“Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find ...”
“Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.”
“He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television.""Are you and Beetee going?" I ask."As many young and attractive victors as poss...”
“Its a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome, he explains. Panem et Circenses translates into Bread and Circuses. The writer was saying tha...”
“What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?”
“We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us”
