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The Hunger Games (2008)
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Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.
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Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?" "Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.
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Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. - Katniss -
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How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe? Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot, I say.
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As we ride the elevator Gale finally says You're still angry. And you're still not sorry, I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it? he asks. No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion, I tell him.
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No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
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A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.
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There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.
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She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
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I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.
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I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
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Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.
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The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.
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Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.
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Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.
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Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.
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What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.
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And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her
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I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg and pull myself over to her. Her voice remains steady as she croons to Buttercup. "It's all right, baby, it's all right. We'll be OK down there." My mother wraps her arms around us. I allow myself to feel young for a moment and rest my head on her shoulder.
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The more likable he is, the more deadly he is. -Katniss Everdeen
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I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
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I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.
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Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'll ether be dead or with us. It's...it's more than we could hope for! Well, that's a sunny view of our situation.
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We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
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You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Marshall Taylor
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August 10, 1962
(age 61)
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