What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
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.
And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.
Sometimes when I’m alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
You have a… remarkable memory.””I remember everything about you. You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention.
We could do it, you know.””What?””Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
I just…I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
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.
You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.
Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness…except possibly when it comes to you.
Sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.
An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.
Because I’m selfish. I’m a coward. I’m the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn’t follow to suffer and die.
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?
Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.
Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
It crosses my mind that Cinna’s calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
I really can’t think about kissing when I’ve got a rebellion to incite.
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I’m the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
It’s lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.””Don’t be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it’s a gigantic cake-
You can swim, too.” he says. “Where did you learn that in District Twelve?””We have a very big bathtub.
Katniss: ‘What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour’. I snap at himTell him that. Thats not nothing.Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.
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.
The awful thing is that if i can forget they’re people, it will be no different at all
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it’s not a mistake to go on living. It’s better than any medicine.
A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.
You don’t destroy what you want toacquire in the future.
Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.
To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.
If you hit bottom, there’s a whole lot of people here to help you up
If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
It’s old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.
Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.
But I don’t know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.
Embrace the probability of your imminent death….and know there is nothing i can do to save you.
Warmblood now a bloodborne death,Will rob your body of it’s breathMark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate
Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
Shame isn’t a strong enough word for what I feel. “You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know,” Haymitch says.
Don’t. Don’t let’s pretend when there’s no one around.
Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home,” I say. “Katniss, I live three houses away from you,” he says.
I’ll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I’m afraid it could be taken away.
That what?” “That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I’m not saying In what way. Maybe you don’t know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him,” he says gently.
It’s my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he’s inviting us to a feast.
Cookies. A pin. I’m getting all kinds of gifts today. Madge gives me one more. A kiss on the cheek. Then she’s gone and i’m left thinking that maybe Madge really has been my friend all along.
He hates me more,” says Peeta. “I don’t think people in general are his sort of thing.
I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good when really it’s for there own good.
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.
Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.
Even in war there should be lines you didn’t cross.
How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true…
Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch’s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, ‘And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.
The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.
Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness.
As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.
Because when he sings…even the birds stop to listen.
In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.
When I break into the clearing, she’s on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.
His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.
You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy,” said Vikus.”Oh, I see,” said Gregor. “So, when’s he coming?”Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. “I believe he is already here.
If there’s a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who’s trapped underground, I don’t know it.
And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind, Gregor knew how to kill things, not bring them back ti life.
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?
I thought he wanted it, anyway,” I say. “Not like this,” Haymitch says. “He wanted it to be real.
Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.
Glimmer, I hear someone call her – ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous …
My children, who don’t know they play on a graveyard.
I just don’t want them to change me, if I’m going to die I still want to be me.
We’re victors, remember? We’re the ones who can survive anything they throw at us
Either you came in here a swimmer or you’d better be a really fast learner
Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
I’m left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.
Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.
The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.
The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.
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.
Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.
What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget…(Katniss)I don’t want to forget.(Peeta)
Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion
But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
My sleep wasn’t peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
but it’s not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. “Stay with me.” As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don’t catch it.
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.
Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait ’cause right now is the oldest you’ve ever been & the youngest you’ll be ever again
Orange?” He seems unconvinced.”Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset,” I say. “At least, that’s what you told me once.
Sometimes, when I’m alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread
They’re a little strange, but I’m pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.
No, when the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill just like everybody else. I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me.
May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket
I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.
Do you want me to have them sedate you until it’s over?
Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?” says Peeta. “It costs everything you are.
I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.
Peeta” I said “Stay with me”I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was ‘always
I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
We are what no one wants to miss at the party. I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.
I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.
Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children’s lives in order to settle its differences.
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I’m okay once I realize you’re here.
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.
But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.
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.
And don’t you let your guard down for a second because you think anything’s inevitable.
I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.
I’m left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick’s fate would have one day been mine. Why not? Snow could have gotten a really good price for the girl on fire.
He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay.
It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.
And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.-Haymitch Abernathy
At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.
I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.
His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.
How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.
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
His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.
I don’t know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.
Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.
Obviously this person’s a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.
I’m sure they didn’t notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often,” he says. “They suit you.
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn’t think nudity is the last word in fashion.
Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that again.” “Or what?” I ask. “Or . . . or . . .” He can’t think of anything good. “Just give me a minute.
Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?
Never was I supposed to hear the words ‘He says he wants to see you.’ But now that I have, there’s no way to refuse.
Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don’t want to miss any of them.
How are you managing? And don’t say you’re fine.”It’s true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that’s what I am.
Because it doesn’t matter anymore, and because I’m so desperately lonely I can’t stand it.
Greed and corruption isn’t in the world.It’s in the people”.
Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.
if he goes and dies on me now, I know I’ll go completely insane.
They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.
Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.