“"Oh," I say under my breath. "Tick, tock." My eyes sweep around the full circle of the arena and I know she's right. "Tick, tock. This is a clock."”

—  Suzanne Collins, book Mockingjay

Katniss, p. 325
The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
Source: Mockingjay

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American television writer and novelist 1962

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