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Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says.
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But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They're just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so, I said, But it's not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn't anticipated its will to live.
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The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.
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I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. No, don't let go of me, he says.
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If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.
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As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.
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And then, when he's been underwater so long I feel certain he's drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. Don't do that, I say. What? Come up or stay under? he says. Either. Neither. Whatever
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And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.
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It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.
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It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.
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Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.
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I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?
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Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. For you. I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.
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I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving.
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But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.
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I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.
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But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.
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Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.
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Maybe... because for the first time... there was a chance I could keep him, I say. So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me? Put you somewhere you can't get hurt. And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.
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This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.
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Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena are rigged for certain attacks. And that if I can just get away from this section, I might be able to move out of reach of the launchers. I might also then fall straight into a pit of vipers, but I can't worry about that now.
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I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him." -Katniss Everdeen
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I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me... no one can do that.
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Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
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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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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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