Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (2008)

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I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

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See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

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Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.

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My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

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They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!

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The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

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An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

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They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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