“Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”

—  Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Katniss, p. 189
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

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