“He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown, leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" - he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose - "distracting?”

—  Suzanne Collins , book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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American television writer and novelist 1962

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