“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”

—  Suzanne Collins, book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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American television writer and novelist 1962

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