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The Hunger Games (2008)
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Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
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Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.
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You can't miss your schedule. Every morning, you're supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside of your forearm with your schedule for the day in a sickly purple ink. 7:00—Breakfast. 7:30—Kitchen Duties. 8:30—Education Center, Room 17. And so on. The ink is indelible until 22:00—Bathing
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On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.
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You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.
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One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.
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Oh, he's on top of it. It was volunteer only, but he pretended not to notice me waving my hand in the air," says Haymitch. "See? He's already demonstrated good judgment.
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I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
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I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
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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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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Marshall Taylor
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Born:
August 10, 1962
(age 61)
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