Quotes from book

Mockingjay

“It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.”

“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”

“My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.”

“The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.”

“Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.”

“Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.”

“It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”

“My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.”

“I'm going to be the Mockingjay.”

“No one knows what to do with you, girlie.”

“Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.”

“My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me……..”

“Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first."
Of course I do.
Gale.”

“I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.”

“Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here.
No stranger would let it be if we met up
At midnight in the hanging tree.”

“This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.”

“I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?' he asks.
'No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,' I tell him.”

“Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.”

“I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.”