Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

Embrace the probability of your imminent death….and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

He was safe for the moment, here in the playground, but people all over the world were suffering, starving, fleeing, killing one another as they waged their wars. How much energy they put into harming...

Either you came in here a swimmer or you’d better be a really fast learner

Was it like this then? Seventy-five years or so ago? Did a group of people sit around and cast their votes on initiating the Hunger Games? Was there dissent? Did someone make a case for...

but it’s not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. “Stay with me.” As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper...

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim’s name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

What about Gale?””He’s not a bad kisser either,” I say shortly. “And it was okay with both of us? You kissing the other?” He asks. “No. It wasn’t okay with either of you. But I...

Well don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

Why don’t we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

It’s to the Capitol’s advantage to have us divided among ourselves.Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally...

Greed and corruption isn’t in the world.It’s in the people”.

Some walks you have to take alone.

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

You have a… remarkable memory.””I remember everything about you. You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

No problem,” Gale replies. “I wake up ten times a night anyway.””To make sure Katniss is still here?” asks Peeta.”Something like that,”…”That was funny, what Tigris said. About no one knowing what to do with...

That what?” “That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I’m not saying In what way. Maybe you don’t know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him,”...

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

I think about going to the lake, but I’m so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it’s too wide without...

We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the cooks are somewhat lacking in imagination. But a woman who came up with...

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it’s one of my better dishes.

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

I’m going to wake Peeta,” I say.”No, wait,” says Finnick. “Let’s do it together. Put our faces right in front of his.”Well, there’s so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We...

Warmblood now a bloodborne death,Will rob your body of it’s breathMark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate

You’re really going to do it, aren’t you? You’re really going to go back to war?” Gregor said. He could feel something boiling up inside of him. “So, we’ll just forget about what happened. The...

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the...

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.

Something inside me shuts down and I’m too numb to feel anything. It’s like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.Right....

If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.

Do you find this…distracting?

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home,” I say. “Katniss, I live three houses away from you,” he says.

I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is.

No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then … what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of...

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It’s jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off...

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

I’m sure they didn’t notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often,” he says. “They suit you.

But I have to confess, I’m glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together.”I’m not glad,” says Peeta. “I wish we had waited until the whole thing was done officially.”This takes...

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Stay with me.Always.

It’s my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he’s inviting us to a feast.

I know I’ll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there’s one thing being a victor doesn’t guarantee, it’s our children’s safety. My kids’ names would go right into the...