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The Hunger Games (2008)
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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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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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The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.
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They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.
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Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
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Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead
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Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous...
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What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me... no competition... best thing that ever happened to you...
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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
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Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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August 10, 1962
(age 61)
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