Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (2008)

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Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

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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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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

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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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Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous...

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Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

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Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

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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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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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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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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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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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The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

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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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Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

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She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and then you can hear a pin drop, and I'm feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it's not me, that it's not me, that it's not me. Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it's not me. It's Primrose Everdeen.

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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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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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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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You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

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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 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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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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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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Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

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No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

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Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

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Because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.

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All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

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Here, cover yourself with this and I'll wash your shorts." "Oh, I don't care if you see me," says Peeta.

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