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The Berries. I Realize The Answer To Who I Am Lies In That Handful Of Poisonous Fruit. If I Held Them Out To Save Peeta Because I Knew I Would Be Shunned If I Came Back Without Him, Then I Am Despicable. If I Held Them Out Because I Loved Him, I Am Still Self-centered, Although Forgivable. But If I Held Them Out To Defy The Capitol, I Am Someone Of Worth. The Trouble Is, I Don't Know Exactly What Was Going On Inside Me At That Moment.
-Suzanne Collins
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The Berries. I Realize

Suzanne Collins
The Berries. I Realize The Answer To Who I Am Lies In That Handful Of Poisonous Fruit. If I Held Them Out To Save Peeta Because I Knew I Would Be Shunned If I Came Back Without Him, Then I Am Despicable. If I Held Them Out Because I Loved Him, I Am Still Self-centered, Although Forgivable. But If I Held Them Out To Defy The Capitol, I Am Someone Of Worth. The Trouble Is, I Don't Know Exactly What Was Going On Inside Me At That Moment.
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Care
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Past
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They're Betting On How Long I'll Live!' I Burst Out. 'they're Not My Friends!
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Years
Catching Fire
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Medicine
Giving
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Light
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Katniss
Bread
Remember
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Light
Giving
Stupidity
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Lying
Eye
Arrows
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Children
Names
People
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Said
Handle
I Can
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Fighting
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Running
Rip
Eye
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.
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Calling
Dinner
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Stupid
Beer
Warrior
Something Small And Quiet, Like A Match Being Struck, Lights Up The Gloom Inside Of Me.
Depression
Light
Quiet
Not Daring To Flee Since My General Location Has Just Been Broadcast To Any Killer Who Cares. I Mean, I Know It's Cold Out Here And Not Everybody Has A Sleeping Bag.
Mean
Sleep
Who Cares
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Kissing
Blow
Missing
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Running
Wall
Eye
But There's Food If You Know How To Find It. My Father Knew And He Taught Me Some Before He Was Blown To Bits In A Mine Explosion. There Was Nothing Even To Bury. I Was Eleven Then. Five Years Later, I Still Wake Up Screaming For Him To Run.
Running
Father
Years
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Mean
Fighting
Boys
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Broken Heart
Pain
Leaving
I Can Feel Peeta Press His Forehead Into My Temple And He Asks, 'so Now That You've Got Me, What Are You Going To Do With Me?' I Turn Into Him. 'put You Somewhere You Can't Get Hurt.
Love
Hurt
Romance
Delly Lost Her Temper At Peeta Over How He Treated You. She Got Very Squeaky. It Was Like Someone Stabbing A Mouse With A Fork Repeatedly.
Lost
Forks
Stabbing
Why? Do You Find This" - He Strikes A Ridiculously Provocative Pose - "distracting?
Finnick
Finnick Odair
Because...because...she Came Here With Me.
Hunger For Love
Games
Katniss
It Takes Ten Times As Long To Put Yourself Back Together As It Does To Fall Apart.
Life
Fall
I Hate You
Destroying Things Is Much Easier Than Making Them.
Inspirational
Hunger Games Book
Easier
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Effort
Encounters
Boots
I Have Two Older Sisters And One Older Brother And Hold Them Largely Responsible For The Trouble I Got Into Growing Up. I Believe As The Youngest Child, That Is My Right.
Brother
Children
Growing Up
I Pull An Arrow, Whip The Notch Into Place, And Am About To Let It Fly When I'm Stopped By The Sight Of Finnick Kissing Peeta. And It's So Bizarre, Even For Finnick.
Kissing
Sight
Arrows
Not Like This. He Wanted It To Be Real.
Love
Real
Wanted
Somehow It Always Comes Back To Coal At School.
School
Coal
I Don't Know What I Expected From My First Meeting With Peeta After The Announcement. A Few Hugs And Kisses. A Little Comfort Maybe. Not This. I Turn To Haymitch. "don't Worry, I'll Get You More Liquor.
Kissing
Worry
Catching Fire
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.
Pain
Kissing
Attention
But In My Head I Can Hear Haymitch's Smug, If Slightly Exasperated, Words: "yes, That's What I'm Looking For, Sweetheart.
Sweetheart
I Can
Ifs
Make Sure They Remember You.
Remember You
Remembers You
Haymitch Abernathy
Several Sets Of Arms Would Embrace Me. But In The End, The Only Person I Truly Want To Comfort Me Is Haymitch, Because He Loves Peeta, Too. I Reach Out For Him And Say Something Like His Name And He's There, Holding Me And Patting My Back. "it's Okay. It'll Be Okay, Sweetheart." He Sits Me On A Length Of Broken Marble Pillar And Keeps An Arm Around Me While I Sob.
Names
Broken
Comfort
I've Asked You Fifty Questions And Still Have No Sense Of Your Life, Your Family, What You Care About. They Want To Know About You, Katniss." "but I Don't Want Them To! They're Already Taking My Future! They Can't Have The Things That Mattered To Time In The Past!" I Say.
Past
Katniss
Care
I'm Running On Hate. When The Energy From That Ebbs I'll Be Worthless.
Running
Hate
Energy
We Hand The Meat Over To Greasy Sae In The Kitchen. She Likes District 13 Well Enough, Even Though She Thinks The Cooks Are Somewhat Lacking In Imagination. But A Woman Who Came Up With A Palatable Wild Dog And Rhubarb Stew Is Bound To Feel As If Her Hands Are Tied Here.
Dog
Thinking
Hands
Scores Only Matter If They’re Very Good, No One Pays Much Attention To The Bad Or Mediocre Ones.
Attention
Pay
Matter
So What I'd Really Like Is To Try And Conceal Him Somewhere Safe, Then Go Hunt, And Come Back And Collect Him. But I Have A Feeling His Ego Isn't Going To Go For That Suggestion.
Ego
Feelings
Trying
Four People Wheel Out A Huge Wedding Cake From A Side Room. Most Of The Guests Back Up, Making Way For This Rarity, This Dazzling Creation With Blue-green, White-tipped Icing Waves Swimming With Fish And Sailboats, Seals And Sea Flowers. But I Push My Way Through The Crowd To Confirm What I Knew At First Sight. As Surely As The Embroidery Stitches In Annie's Gown Were Done By Cinna's Hand, The Frosted Flowers On The Cake Were Done By Peeta's.
Flower
Swimming
Hands
No One Really Needs Me," He Says, And There Is No Self-pity In His Voice. It's True His Family Doesn't Need Him. They Will Mourn Him, As Will A Handful Of Friends. But They Will Get On. Even Haymitch, With The Help Of A Lot Of White Liquor, Will Get On. I Realize Only One Person Will Be Damaged Beyond Repair If Peeta Dies. Me. "i Do," I Say. "i Need You.
Voice
White
Self
This Is The First Kiss That We're Both Fully Aware Of. Neither Of Us Hobbled By Sickness Or Pain Or Simply Unconscious. Our Lips Neither Burning With Fever Or Icy Cold. This Is The First Kiss Where I Actually Feel Stirring Inside My Chest. Warm And Curious. This Is The First Kiss That Makes Me Want Another.
Pain
Kissing
Burning
District 12. Where You Can Starve To Death In Safety," I Mutter. Then I Glance Quickly Over My Shoulder. Even Here, In The Middle Of Nowhere, You Worry Someone Might Overhear You.
Safety
Worry
Middle Of Nowhere
Finnick:" Good To See You, Peeta." Peeta:" You Be Nice To Her, Finnick. Or I Might Try And Take Her Away From You." It Could Be A Joke, If The Tone Wasn't So Cold. Everything It Conveys Is Wrong. The Open Distrust Of Finnick, The Implication That Peeta Has His Eye On Annie, That Annie Could Desert Finnick, That I Do Not Even Exist. Finnick:"oh Peeta," Says Finnick Lightly. "don't Make Me Sorry I Restarted Your Heart.
Sorry
Nice
Heart
Gale Is Mine. I Am His. Anything Else Is Unthinkable.
Catching Fire
Gale
Unthinkable
Everything Is About Them, Not The Dying Boys And Girls In The Arena.
Girl
Boys
Dying
Oh, That I Do Know...katniss Will Pick Whoever She Thinks She Can't Survive Without.
Thinking
Katniss
Mockingjay Book
I'm Filled With Awe, As I Always Am, As I Watch Her Transform From A Woman Who Calls Me To Kill A Spider To A Woman Immune To Fear.
Watches
Spiders
Call Me
Do It. Before They Send Those Mutts Back Or Something. I Don't Want To Die Like Cato," He Says. “then You Shoot Me," I Say Furiously, Shoving The Weapons Back At Him. "you Shoot Me And Go Home And Live With It!" And As I Say It, I Know Death Right Here, Right Now Would Be The Easier Of The Two.
Home
Two
Mutts
But Between The Images, We Are Privy To The Real-life Action Being Played Out On The Set. Peeta's Attempt To Continue Speaking. The Camera Knocked Down To Record The White Tiled Floor. The Scuffle Of Boots. The Impact Of The Blow That's Inseparable From Peeta's Cry Of Pain. And His Blood As It Splatters The Tiles.
Pain
Real
Blow
Maybe The Other Tributes Are Out There Beating One Another Senseless. Which Would Be Fine. - Katniss -
Katniss
Would Be
Fine
Since Mags Seems To Have No Ill Effects From The Nuts, Peeta Collects Bunches Of Them And Fries Them By Bouncing Them Off The Force Field.
Force Fields
Nuts
Mags
Only.. I Want To Do Die As Myself
Want
Roof
Dies
You Could Do A Lot Worse.
Just Because People Starve In A Book, Doesn't Mean That We Will Starve In The Future.
Book
Mean
People
If I Can Make It Clear That I’m Still Defying The Capitol Right Up To The End, The Capitol Will Have Killed Me... But Not My Spirit. What Better Way To Give Hope To The Rebels?
Giving
Rebel
Way
Remember, Heads High. Smiles. They're Going To Love You!
Love You
Remember
Cinna
I Guess After Tonight Boots Won't Think The Whole World Is Her Friend," Thought Gregor. She Had To Find Out Sometime, But It Still Made Him Sad.
Thinking
Tonight
Boots
It's To The Capitol's Advantage To Have Us Divided Among Ourselves. Another Tool To Cause Misery In Our District. A Way To Plant Hatred Between The Starving Workers [of The Seam] And Those Who Can Generally Count On Supper And Thereby Ensure We Will Never Trust One Another.
Hatred
Causes
Tools
It Starts At Midnight.
Midnight
What Do I Mean When I Say I Love Gale? I Don't Know. I Did Kiss Him Last Night, In A Moment When My Emotions Were Running So High. But I'm Sure He Doesn't Remember It. Does He? I Hope Not. If He Does, Everything Will Just Get More Complicated And I Really Can't Think About Kissing When I've Got A Rebellion To Incite.
Running
Mean
Kissing
I Take Peeta's Face In My Hands. "don't Worry. I'll See You At Midnight.
Hands
Worry
Midnight
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.
Running
Pain
Giving
You Would Think After All The Hours I’d Spent With Gale– Watching Him Talk And Laugh And Frown– That I Would Know All There Was To Know About His Lips. But I Hadn’t Imagined How Warm They Would Feel Pressed Against My Own. Or How Those Hands [...] Could Entrap Me… I Vaguely Remember My Fingers, Curled Tightly Closed, Resting On His Chest.
Thinking
Hands
Laughing
Positioned On My Dresser, That White-as-snow Rose Is A Personal Message To Me. It Speaks Of Unfinished Business. It Whispers, I Can Find You. I Can Reach You. Perhaps I Am Watching You Now.
Unfinished Business
President Snow
White
I Will Never Give Up If You Never Give In.
Giving Up
I Will Never Give Up
Never Give In
So It's You And A Syringe Against The Capitol? See, This Is Why No One Lets You Make The Plans.
Catching On
Catching Fire
Plans
Oh, My Dear Miss Everdeen. I Thought We Had An Agreement Not To Lie To Each Other.
Lying
Agreement
Missing
No Matter What I Do, I'm Hurting Someone." - Katniss Everdeen
Hurt
Katniss
Matter
My Mouth Has Gone Dry As Sawdust. I Desperately Find Cinna In The Crowd And Lock Eyes With Him. I Imagine The Words Coming From His Lips. 'what's Impressed You Most Since You Arrived Here?' I Rack My Brain For Something That Made Me Happy Here. Be Honest, I Think. Be Honest.
Eye
Thinking
Brain
And When Again It's Morning, They'll Wash Away. Here It's Safe, Here It's Warm Here The Daisies Guard You From Every Harm.
Morning
Safe
Daisies
You Can Swim, Too." He Says. "where Did You Learn That In District Twelve?" "we Have A Very Big Bathtub.
Swim
Twelve
Bigs
I'd Begun To Think That He'd Given Up On Me In The Weeks That Had Passed. Or That He No Longer Cared About Me. Hated Me Even. And The Idea Of Losing Him Forever, My Best Friend, The Only Person I'd Ever Trusted With My Secrets, Was So Painful I Couldn't Stand It.
Thinking
Ideas
Forever
As Long As You Can Find Yourself, You’ll Never Starve.
Katniss
Long
Finding Yourself
The Evil Thing Is Inside, Not Out.
Evil
Evil Things
You Want A Piece Of Advice?" Said Ripred. "don't Bother. I Know What You'll Say. The Whole Thing's Stupid," Said Gregor. "quite The Contrary. I Was Going To Say That Life Is Short. There Are Only A Few Good Things In It, Really. Don't Pretend That One Isn't Happening." Said Ripred.
Stupid
Life Is Short
Advice
Aim Higher In Case You Fall Short.
Inspirational
Fall
Catching On
Stay With Me. Always.
Stay With Me
Mockingjay
Peeta
By The End Of The Session, I Am No One At All. Haymitch Started Drinking Somewhere Around Witty, And A Nasty Edge Has Crept Into His Voice. "i Give Up, Sweetheart. Just Answer The Questions And Try Not To Let The Audience See How Openly You Despise Them.
Witty
Giving Up
Drinking
So Instead Of Acknowledging Applause, I Stand There Unmoving While They Take Part In The Boldest Form Of Dissent They Can Manage. Silence. Which Says We Do Not Agree. We Do Not Condone. All Of This Is Wrong.
Silence
Form
Applause
Remember, We're Madly In Love, So It's All Right To Kiss Me Anytime You Feel Like It.
Humor
Kissing
Hunger For Love
What Happens When We Get Back? I Don't Know. I Guess We Try And Forget. I Don't Want To Forget.
Trying
Want
Forget
Want A Sugar Cube?- Finnick Odair,
Want
Sugar
Cubes
Then Something Unexpected Happens. At Least, I Don't Expect It Because I Don't Think Of District 12 As A Place That Cares About Me. But A Shift Has Occurred Since I Stepped Up To Take Prim's Place, And Now It Seems I Have Become Someone Precious. At First One, Then Another, Then Almost Every Member Of The Crowd Touches The Three Middle Fingers Of Their Left Hand To Their Lips And Holds It Out To Me. It Is An Old And Rarely Used Gesture Of Our District, Occasionally Seen At Funerals. It Means Thanks, It Means Admiration, It Means Good-bye To Someone You Love.
Mean
Thinking
Hands
District 12: Where You Can Starve To Death In Safety.
Safety
Hunger Games Book
District 12
The Ones I Loved Fly As Birds In The Open Sky Above Me. Soaring, Weaving, Calling To Me To Join Them. I Want So Badly To Follow Them, But The Seawater Saturates My Wings, Making It Impossible To Lift Them. The Ones I Hated Have Taken To The Water, Horrible Scaled Things That Tear My Salty Flesh With Needle Teeth. Biting Again And Again. Dragging Me Beneath The Surface.
Taken
Sky
Wings
You Call That A Kiss?
Kissing
Hunger
Haymitch
Of Course You Are. The Tributes Were Necessary To The Games, Too. Until They Weren't," I Say. "and Then We Were Very Disposable - Right, Plutarch?
Games
Tribute
Courses
I Swear If You Cry, I'll Kill You Here And Now.' Cinna Just Smiles. 'had A Damp Morning?' 'you Could Wring Me Out.' I Reply
Morning
Just Smile
Cry
I Drag Myself Out Of Nightmares Each Morning And Find There's No Relief In Waking.
Morning
I Hate You
Katniss
Frankly, Our Ancestors Don't Seem Much To Brag About. I Mean, Look At The State They Left Us In, With The Wars, The Broken Planet. Clearly, They Didn't Care About What Would Happen To The People Who Came After Them.
War
Mean
People
Keep Calm And Have A Sugar Cube
Sugar
Cubes
Calm
This Perplexing, Good Natured Boy Who Can Spin Out Lies So Convincingly To Be Hopelessly In Love With Me ... And I Admit It There Are Moments When He Makes Me Believe It Myself.
Lying
Believe
Boys
It's Amazing To See Things That Are Suggested In The Book Fully Developed And So Brilliantly Realized Through The Artistry Of The Designers.
Book
Designer
Artistry
Sorry Excuses For Hunters And Friends. Both Of Us.
Sorry
Hunters
Excuse
That If Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures, Then I'm Free To Act As Desperately As I Wish.
Catching On
Desperate Measures
Catching Fire
You've Got To Go Through It To Get To The End Of It.
Catching Fire
Hunger
Ends
I Do Think You're Mad And I'll Still Go With You.
Thinking
Catching On
Mad
I Want To Do Something, Right Here, Right Now, To Shame Them, To Make Them Accountable, To Show The Capitol That Whatever They Do Or Force Us To Do There Is A Part Of Every Tribute They Can't Own. That Rue Was More Than A Piece In Their Games. And So Am I.
Games
Katniss
Pieces
It Sends Out A Very Clear Message: "mess With Us And We'll Do Something Worse Than Kill You. We'll Kill Your Children.
Children
Messages
Clear
I Look At Peeta And He Gives Me A Sad Smile. I Hear Haymitch's Voice. "you Could Do A Lot Worse." At This Moment, It's Impossible To Imagine How I Could Do Any Better. The Gift...it Is Perfect. So When I Rise Up On My Tiptoe To Kiss Him, It Doesn't Seem Forced At All.
Kissing
Voice
Giving
I've Spent So Much Time Making Sure I Don't Underestimate My Opponents That I've Forgotten It's Just As Dangerous To Overestimate Them As Well.
Opponents
Underestimate
Forgotten
I Say We Try It,' Says Peeta. 'katniss Is Right.' Finnick Looks At Johanna And Raises His Eyebrows. He Will Not Go Forward Without Her. 'all Right,' She Says Finally. 'it's Better Than Hunting Them Down In The Jungle, Anyway. And I Doubt They'll Figure Out Our Plan, Since We Can Barely Understand It Ourselves.
Hunting
Eyebrows
Katniss
Hope Is The Only Thing Stronger Than Fear.
President Snow
Games
Katniss
Impulsively, I Lean Forward And Kiss Him, Stopping His Word. This Is Probably Overdue Anyway Since He’s Right, We Are Supposed To Be Madly In Love.
Kissing
Stopping
Madly In Love
I Always Channel My Emotions Into My Work. That Way, I Don't Hurt Anyone But Myself.
Hurt
Catching On
Catching Fire
But Because Two Can Play At This Game, I Stand On Tiptoe And Kiss His Cheek. Right On His Bruise.
Kissing
Two
Games
They'll Be Granted Immunity!" I Feel Myself Rising From My Chair, My Voice Full Of Resonant. "you Will Personally Pledge This In Front Of The Entire Population Of District Thirteen And The Remainder Of Twelve. Soon. Today. It Will Be Recorded For Future Generations. You Will Hold Yourself And Your Government Responsible For Their Safety, Or You'll Find Yourself Another Mockingjay!
Government
Voice
Safety
You're Punishing Him Over And Over For Things That Are Out Of His Control.
Peeta
Really? What Did You Cost Me Again? I Ask. A Lot Of Trouble. Don't Worry. You'll Get It All Back,he Says.
Worry
Cost
Trouble
A Verbal Promise Behind Closed Doors, Even A Statement Written On Paper-these Could Easily Evaporate . . . .
Doors
Promise
Paper
If The Careers Want Me, Let Them Find Me.
Careers
Want
Find Me
I Think Of The Snarling, Cruel Exchange Back On The Hovercraft. The Bitterness That Followed. But All I Say Is "i Can't Believe You Didn't Rescue Peeta." "i Know," He Replies. There's A Sense Of Incompleteness. And Not Because He Hasn't Apologized. But Because We Were A Team. We Had A Deal To Keep Peeta Safe. A Drunken, Unrealistic Deal Made In The Dark Of Night, But A Deal Just The Same. And In My Heart Of Hearts, I Know We Both Failed. "now You Say It," I Tell Him. "i Can't Believe You Let Him Out Of Your Sight That Night," Says Haymitch.
Team
Believe
Heart
It's Just Me And The Bane. And I'm Fighting Him Because He Killed All Of Those Innocent Mice And People, And I Have To Stop Him. Not Because Sandwich Says So But Because I Say So.
Fighting
People
Sandwiches
Greeting To The Final Contestants Of The Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The Earlier Revision Has Been Revoked. Closer Examination Of The Rule Book Has Disclosed That Only One Winner May Be Allowed," He Says. "good Luck And May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor.
Book
Good Luck
Odds
I Can't Help Comparing What I Have With Gale To What I'm Pretending To Have With Peeta. How I Never Question Gale's Motives While I Do Nothing But Doubt The Latter's. It's Not A Fair Comparison Really. Gale And I Were Thrown Together By A Mutual Need To Survive. Peeta And I Know The Other's Survival Means Our Own Death. How Do You Sidestep That?
Mean
Doubt
Survival
I Really Can't Think About Kissing When I've Got A Rebellion To Incite.
Humorous
Kissing
Thinking
The Sensation Inside Me Grows Warmer And Spreads Out From My Chest Down Through My Body Out Along My Arms And Legs To The Tips Of My Being. Instead Of Satisfying Me The Kisses Have The Opposite Effect Of Making My Need Greater.
Kissing
Opposites
Legs
Warmblood Now A Bloodborne Death, Will Rob Your Body Of It's Breath Mark Your Skin And Seal Your Fate The Underland Becomes A Plate
Fate
Skins
Body
One More Time? For The Audience?" He Says. His Voice Isn't Angry. It's Hollow, Which Is Worse. Already The Boy With The Bread Is Slipping Away From Me. I Take His Hand, Holding On Tightly, Preparing For The Cameras, And Dreading The Moment When I Will Finally Have To Let Go.
Letting Go
Boys
Hands
Aren't They The Very Reason I Have To Try To Fight? Because What Has Been Done To Them Is So Wrong, So Beyond Justification, So Evil That There Is No Choice? Because No One Has The Right To Treat Them As They Have Been Treated?
Fighting
Evil
Choices
Anyone? On Snow's Visit Before The Victory Tour, He Challenged Me To Erase Any Doubts Of My Love For Peeta. "convince Me," Snow Said. It Seems, Under That Hot Pink Sky With Peeta's Life In Limbo, I Finally Did. And In Doing So, I Gave Him The Weapon He Needed To Break Me.
Loss
Sky
Snow
"i Don't Know How To Say It Exactly. Only... I Want To Die As Myself. Does That Make Any Sense?" He Asks. I Shake My Head. How Could He Die As Anyone But Himself. "i Don't Want Them To Change Me In There. Turn Me Into Some Kind Of Monster That I'm Not."
Monsters
Doe
Want
Is That Why You Hate Me?" I Ask. "partly," She Admits. "jealousy Is Certainly Involved. I Also Think You're A Little Hard To Swallow. With Your Tacky Romantic Drama And Your Defender-of-the-helpless Act. Only It Isn't An Act, Which Makes You More Unbearable. Please Feel Free To Take This Personally.
Hate
Drama
Thinking
And To Us, We're More Married Than Any Piece Of Paper Or Big Party Could Make Us.
Party
Catching Fire
Pieces
Peeta Smiles And Douses Haymitch's Knife In White Liquor From A Bottle On The Floor. He Wipes The Blade Clean On His Shirt Tail And Slices The Bread. Peeta Keeps All Of Us In Fresh Baked Goods. I Hunt. He Bakes. Haymitch Drinks. We Have Our Own Ways To Stay Busy, To Keep Thought Of Our Time As Contestants In The Hunger Games At Bay.
Knives
Games
White
Whatever It Takes To Break You.
Break
Whatever It Takes
You Don't Destroy What You Want To Acquire In The Future.
Want
What You Want
Acquire
Do You Really Know What's Going On And If You Don't... Find Out
Knows
Ifs
That It's No Good Loving Me Because I'm Never Going To Get Married Anyway And He'd Just End Up Hating Me Later Instead Of Sooner.
Hate
Married
Ends
So I Learned To Hold My Tongue And To Turn My Features Into An Indifferent Mask So That No One Could Ever Read My Thoughts.
Tongue
Mask
District 12
Thinking Like Your Prey. . . That's Where You Find Their Vulnerabilities.
Thinking
Prey
Vulnerability
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