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Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

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Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

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Deep in the meadow, under the willow, a bed of grass, a soft green pillow

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Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

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You want a piece of advice?" said Ripred. "Don't bother. I know what you'll say. The whole thing's stupid," said Gregor. "Quite the contrary. I was going to say that life is short. There are only a few good things in it, really. Don't pretend that one isn't happening." said Ripred.

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I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.

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Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.

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In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair.

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I don't want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

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The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.

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For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

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

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I knew you'd kiss me." "How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.

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A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate....

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My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.

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The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.

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They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.

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That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.

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But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

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Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.

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This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

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Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

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I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear. I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

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Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

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Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun...

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The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

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Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

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They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

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What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.

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The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.

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