Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we’d found each other.
How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it’s only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.
There’s no point in comforting words, in telling her she’ll be all right. She’s no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it’s me who’s dying instead of Rue.
Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.
I miss him so badly it hurts.
It starts at midnight.
What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?
Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch.
I’m running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I’ll be worthless.
You’re hideous, you know that, right?
No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that’s the only way to convince her you love her.
A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she’s quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.
I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads ‘mentally disoriented’ around and around my wrist.
Listen up. You’re in trouble. Word is the Capitol’s furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can’t stand is being laughed at and they’re the joke of Panem.
If there’s a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who’s trapped underground, I don’t know it.
All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.
I mean I know it’s cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!
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.
Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
It’s the first gift that’s always the hardest to pay back.