I’m not prepared for Rue’s family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.
Either you came in here a swimmer or you’d better be a really fast learner.
Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I’ve never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.
There’s no going back. So we might as well get on with things.
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.
As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
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.
It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.
Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.
I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.
Doors are for those who lack enemies.
The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.
It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.
If you die and i live there’s no life for me back in District 12. You’re my whole life. I would never be happy again.
Just because people starve in a book, doesn’t mean that we will starve in the future...
How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
I’m more than just a piece in their Games.
What? My head doctor says I’m not supposed to censor my thoughts. It’s part of my therapy.
Isn’t it strange that I know you’d risk your life to save mine, but I don’t even know what your favorite color is?