Quotes from book

Mockingjay

“Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”

“I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.”

“I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.”

“Don't let him take you from me.”

“My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.”

“At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.”

“Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.”

“She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.”

“Real or not real?”

“Why… do you find this… distracting?”

“Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!”

“You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.”

“All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.
And I hate him for it.”

“You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.”

“You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.”

“Thinking like your prey… that's where you find their vulnerabilities.”

“Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna.
"Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.”

“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”