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I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun…
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So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there's some improvement, I could swear he's making an effort to snap every branch we encounter
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Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?
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I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
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I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.
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The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.
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If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
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Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.
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He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. 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." That's why.
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She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.
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I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.
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The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.
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Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!
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You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?" "All right," he whispers.
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But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.
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My words hang in the air. I look to the screen, hoping to see them recording some wave of reconciliation going through the crowd. Instead I watch myself get shot on television.
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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.
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You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.
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It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death." "Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-
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Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.
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At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.
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I don't stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me. The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you, I say. Gale holds my gaze. If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.
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I notice her blouse has pulled out of her skirt in the back again and force myself to stay calm. "Tuck your tail in, little duck," I say, smoothing the blouse back in place. Prim giggles and give me a small "Quack." "Quack yourself," I say with a light laugh. The kind only Prim can draw out of me.
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I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better. The gift...it is perfect. So when I rise up on my tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn't seem forced at all.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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August 10, 1962
(age 61)
Bio:
Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and novelist, best known as the author of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy.
Known for:
Mockingjay (2010)
Catching Fire (2009)
Gregor the Overlander (2003)
The Hunger Games (2008)
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (2004)
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