Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (2008)

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

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

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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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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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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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Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

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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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This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

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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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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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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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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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A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate....

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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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Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.

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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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I don't want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

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

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

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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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