Quotes from book

Catching Fire

“Dawn comes before sleep does.”

“They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.”

“Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.”

“So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.”

“I don't like self-righteous people," I say.

"What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.”

“Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.”

“He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.”

“Peeta" I said "Stay with me"

I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always”

“Im still betting on you. - Cinna.”

“I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.”

“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help […] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

“I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.”

“Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!”

“Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally.

"No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?”

“ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.”

“"I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it," I say.”

“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”

“As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.”

“I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation… "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.”