““Katniss, she’s running this district. She can’t do it if it seems like she’s caving in to your will.”
“You mean she can’t stand any dissent, even if it’s fair.””

—  Suzanne Collins

Gale Hawthorne and Katniss Everdeen (pp. 63-64)
The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

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American television writer and novelist 1962

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