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Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway.

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She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail,

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It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

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Aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

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One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

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Even though I don't ask, Plutarch gives me cheerful updates on the phone like "Good news, Katniss! I think we've almost got him convinced you're not a mutt!" Or "Today he was allowed to feed himself pudding!

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Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like... But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen

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If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

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But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would've thought she'd murdered someone from the looks she got.

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Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breath Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate

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As we trudge back through the woods, we reach a boulder, and both Gale and I turn our heads in the same direction, like a pair of dogs catching a scent on the wind. Cressida notices and asks what lies that way. We admit, without acknowledging each other, it's our old hunting rendez-vous place. She wants to see it, even after we tell her it's nothing really. Nothing but a place where I was happy, I think.

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I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

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Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

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I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

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Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say. "For what? Nothing's going on here," he says. "Besides, I like watching you sleep. You don't scowl. Improves your looks a lot." This, of course, brings on a scowl that makes him grin.

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My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me........

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I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

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I can't fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I've been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

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I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?

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You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

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Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

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How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

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Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

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If he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

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The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn't be having this conversation, said Ripred.

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That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

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Turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine

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Here, cover yourself with this and I'll wash your shorts." "Oh, I don't care if you see me," says Peeta.

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Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

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Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?

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