Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (2008)

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Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena are rigged for certain attacks. And that if I can just get away from this section, I might be able to move out of reach of the launchers. I might also then fall straight into a pit of vipers, but I can't worry about that now.

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This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.

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Maybe... because for the first time... there was a chance I could keep him, I say. So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me? Put you somewhere you can't get hurt. And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.

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Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

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But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

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I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

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But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.

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I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving.

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Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. For you. I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.

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I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

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Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.

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Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?" "Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.

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Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. - Katniss -

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How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe? Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot, I say.

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As we ride the elevator Gale finally says You're still angry. And you're still not sorry, I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it? he asks. No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion, I tell him.

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No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.

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A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

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There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

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She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

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I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

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I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...

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Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

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The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.

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Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

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Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.

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Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.

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What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.

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And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

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I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg and pull myself over to her. Her voice remains steady as she croons to Buttercup. "It's all right, baby, it's all right. We'll be OK down there." My mother wraps her arms around us. I allow myself to feel young for a moment and rest my head on her shoulder.

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The more likable he is, the more deadly he is. -Katniss Everdeen

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