Katniss, p. 325
The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
Source: Mockingjay
“Midnight, when the monotonous tick-tock of diurnal progress is for one throbbing moment replaced by the cool but smokey honk of a saxophone, alternately seductive and threatening. Midnight. The black growth on the clock face that has to be biopsied every twenty-four hours to see whether it is malignant or benign.”
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)
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And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
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