#mock

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 thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #mockingjay #suzanne-collins #war #destruction

Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#seduction

Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them." "That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#finnick #katniss #mockingjay #plutarch #wedding

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else. ↗

— Scott Adams

#different #during #early #else #had

She crept up on me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#mockingjay #suzanne-collins #the-hunger-games #love

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#apart #danger #deeper #exercising #full

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#claim #deeds #guides #love #makes

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#better #down #feel #feel good #fun

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint. ↗

— George Grey

#brilliantly #character #constantly #disappeared #eastern

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#clearly #clerks #endless #endless series #mock