Suzanne Collins · 1155 pages
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“Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair”
“Well you are a piece of work aren't you?”
“If I burn, you burn with me”
“My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.”
“It's the things we love most, that destroy us.”
“He lives alone, no wife or children, most of his waking hours drunk. I don’t want to end up like that.”
“We’re going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don’t look so suspicious; it’s worked before.”
“I am going back into the arena.”
“May the odds be ever in your Favour”
“I almost forgot! Happy Hunger Games!”
“It takes some adjusting from a bow to a gun, but by the end of the day, I’ve got the best score in my class.”
“His skin, his whole being, radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don’t try to move away. Why should I, anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. “I love you.”
“Floating on my back, as I am now,”
“They might. But you’re playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that’s where you find their vulnerabilities,”
“Happy Hunger Games!” He plucks a few blackberries from the bushes around us. “And may the odds —” He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me.”
“Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.”
“Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway.”
“But the apples must have set off enough mines, causing debris to activate the others.”
“You can’t,” says Peeta. He holds out his hand into seemingly empty space. There’s a sharp zap and he jerks it back. “Some kind of electric field throws you back on the roof.” “Always worried about our safety,” I say. Even though Cinna has shown Peeta the roof, I wonder if we’re supposed to be up here now, so late and alone. I’ve never seen tributes on the Training Center roof before. But that doesn’t mean we’re not being taped. “Do you think they’re watching us now?” “Maybe,” he admits. “Come see the garden.” On the other side of the”
“May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket”
“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?”
“then smiles. “Well, if I end up going to the”
“Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;
A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.”
“It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me. ”
“What is it that is competing for your allegiance to Christ? You may have both hands on the plow, but what is it you keep looking back at?”
“La ocultación podía ser sinónimo de poder. Como andar por la casa con un revólver cargado.”
“Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.”
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