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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games is a series of young adult dystopian novels written by American novelist Suzanne Collins. The series is set in The Hunger Games universe, and follows young Katniss Everdeen.

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“Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.”

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“I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn't be fair on my part.”

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“Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.”

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“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”

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“I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.”

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“I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!”

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“But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.”

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“Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”

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Katniss, p. 189
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

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“What happens when we get back?
I don't know. I guess we try and forget.
I don't want to forget.”

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“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

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“If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.”

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“It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread.”

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“Well, I don't have much competition here."
"You don't have much competition anywhere.”

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“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”

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“Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?”

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“Only.. I want to do die as myself”

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“Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.”

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“Embrace the probability of your imminent death…. and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”

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