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Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable." ~Katniss Everdeen ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly. "What?" I ask. "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale. I don't know how to respond. This idea is so preposterous. (1.23-26) ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead, only know I must reach her, protect her. I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, through anything that keeps me from reaching her. From reaching my little sister. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully. ↗

— Janet Flanner

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It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair claiming he is practicing knots. After awhile his hands go still. “What?” I ask. “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says. Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I’m so relaxed and beyond worrying about a future I’ll never have, I just let the word slip out. “Okay,” I say. I can hear the smile in his voice. “Then you’ll allow it?” “I’ll allow it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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What I need to survive is not Gale’s fire kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again and only Peeta can give me that. So after when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?” I tell him, “Real ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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