“I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.”

—  Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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American television writer and novelist 1962

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