Quotes from work

The Hunger Games

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

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

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

“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.”

“You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person”

“Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

“Only.. I want to do die as myself”

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

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