“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games
“I don't fear death. But I don't like being dangled out there like a piece of meat on a fishing rod to it either. If I'm going to die, take me out now. Don't let me suffer. That's not exactly the way I wanted to go. I don't want to be in limbo, I don't want to know that I might die. The mights don't work with me. I'm too literal.”
"I don't fear death" http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/15/popandrock1, The Guardian.com, March 15, 2004. <br class="br">General Quotes
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