Quotes from work

The Hunger Games

“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”

“No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.”

“I just… I just miss him. And hate being so alone. Does he miss me? He must”

“I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.”

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”

“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”

“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”

“Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.”

“He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”

“Here, cover yourself with this and I'll wash your shorts."

"Oh, I don't care if you see me," says Peeta.”

“Twirl for me.”

“‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?”

“I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.”

“That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.”

“One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.”

“Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me.
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

“I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner.

Good. I'm starving.”