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.
That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.
And it takes so much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.
The air’s warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.
There’s a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don’t give up on him.
Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.
They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.
Some walks you have to take alone.
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.
Katniss. I remember about the bread.
Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We’re very familiar with each other’s screams.
You’re punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.