#katniss

A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #the-hunger-games #food

My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal herbs and sell them to her shop to be brewed into remedies. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#forgiveness

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #peeta #humor

I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#mockingjay #peeta #life

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#break-me #chapter- #katniss

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

#katniss #tears

In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#peeta #the-hunger-games #father

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#intimidation #katniss-everdeen #threat #sacrifice