1. “Miss Everdeen I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other.”
2. “We didn’t sing it anymore, my father and I, or even speak of it. After he died, it used to come back to me a lot. Being older, I began to understand the lyrics. At the beginning, it sounds like a guy is trying to get his girlfriend to secretly meet up with him at midnight. But it’s an odd place for a tryst, a hanging tree, where a man was hung for murder. The murderer’s lover must have had something to do with the killing, or maybe they were just going to punish her anyway, because his corpse called out for her to flee.”
3. “Anyway, even if she’s sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.”
4. “Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself”
5. “Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television.”
6. “She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.”
7. “That Gale would sacrifice his life in this way for the cause”
8. “On the fifth block, I can tell that we’ve reached the point where the wave began to peter out.”
9. “I must have loved you a lot.”
10. “it’s remarkable they survived at all.”
11. “You’re still trying to protect me. Real or not real,” he whispers.
12. “Finally, Haymitch is being forced into sobriety, with no secret stashes or home-brewed concoctions to ease his transition. They’ve got him in seclusion until he’s dried out,”
13. “become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution. The person”
14. “How are you doing with the separation?”
15. “Snow has a list and no one knows who will be next. Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.”
16. “I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”
17. “So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?” I tell him, “Real”.”
18. “Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.”
19. “But I have some conditions.”
20. “In his hands, I am again a mockingjay.”
21. “Heart pounding, adrenaline burning through me, everyone is my enemy. Except Gale. My hunting partner, the person who has my back. There’s nothing to do but move forward, killing whoever come into our path.”
22. “Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.”
23. “it’s not a mistake to go on living. It’s better than any medicine.”
24. “Real or not real? I am on fire.”
25. “I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.”
26. “I knew I’d misjudged you. That you do 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.”
27. “But there are much worse games to play.”
28. “Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.”
29. “Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die above ground, the next thing they’ll do is bury me underground anyway.”
30. “Does it matter?”
31. “I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.”
32. “The problem is, I can’t tell what real anymore, and what’s made up.”
33. “Maybe I’ll be like that man in ‘The Hanging Tree’. Still waiting for an answer.”
34. “Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”
35. “My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.”
36. “She’s really gone, then…Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly…”
37. “I’ve caught the eye of an inquisitive-looking little girl in a lemon yellow coat.”
38. “Because that’s what you and I do. Protect each other.”
39. “It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem et Circenses translates into ‘Bread and Circuses.’ The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.” I”
40. “Still, he’s right. It does seem strange, my level of concern over the prep team.”
41. “He left me a rose!”
42. “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
43. “Blood like raindrops on the window.”
44. “my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. the pain over my heart returns, and from it i imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks.”
45. “I KILL SNOW. If he’s captured, I want the privilege.”
46. “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.”
47. “In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.”
48. “If we burn you burn with us!”
49. “How can I help the districts when every time I make a move, it results in suffering and loss of life?”
50. “I’m in pain. That’s the only way I get your attention”
51. “Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I’m human. It was less painful being strangled.”
52. “Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”
53. “Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
54. “You’ve got to stop that,” I say. But since I’m already scooping up the stuff, it’s not too convincing”
55. “Why…do you find this…distracting?”
56. “Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!”
57. “It isn’t enough, what I’ve done in the past, defying the Capitol in the Games, providing a rallying point. I must now become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution.”
58. “I just needed to hear it.” She presses the bundle of pine needles to her nose and closes her eyes. The”
59. “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.”
60. “I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is.”
61. “My family gets to keep our cat.”
62. “As we trudge back through the woods, we reach a boulder, and both Gale and I turn our heads in the same direction, like a pair of dogs catching a scent on the wind. Cressida notices and asks what lies that way. We admit, without acknowledging each other, it’s our old hunting rendez-vous place. She wants to see it, even after we tell her it’s nothing really.
63. “Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
64. “There are much worse games to play.”
65. “But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
66. “Or even Finnick. I was starting to worry he had his eye on you, but he seems back on track now.”
67. “Because it doesn’t matter anymore, and because I’m so desperately lonely I can’t stand it.”
68. “And how I watched my little sister become a human torch. Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”
69. “I guess so.” I allow myself a small smile.”
70. “Who can look past the radiant faces of two people for whom this day was once a virtual impossibility?”
71. “They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
72. “Why am I not dead? I should be dead. It would best for everyone if I were dead.”
73. “I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,”
74. “becoming overrun with refugees. At this rate, Tigris may have new houseguests by lunch. It was good for everybody that we got out when we did. It’s brighter now, even with the snow”
75. “my best friend predicts I will choose the person who I think I “can’t survive without.”
76. “He started arguing with himself like he was two people.”
77. “So, what do you think they’ll do to him?”
78. “Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.”
79. “I don’t even know why you bothered to put Finnick and me through training, Plutarch,” I say.”
80. “Her eyes are gray, but not like those of people from the Seam. They’re very pale, as if almost all the color has been sucked out of them.”
81. “maybe it’s that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.”
82. “I’m trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.”
83. “The symbol of the revolution. The Mockingjay.”
84. “I’m not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.”
85. “Oh, that I do know…Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without.”
86. “I can’t believe you let him out of your sight that night,” says Haymitch.”
87. “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.”
88. “Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”
89. “I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.”
90. “I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can’t help him. Running.”
91. “it took them long enough to show up,”
92. “It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.”
93. “At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.”
94. “But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.”
95. “Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.”
96. “None of the people we lost were idiots. They knew what they were doing. They followed you because they believed you really could kill Snow.”
97. “Don’t let him take you from me.”
98. “So even though the kitchen cupboards are bare, we find over thirty canned goods and several boxes of cookies.”
99. “They were right. It did. But not quite as sick as you lying to me for Coin.” At that moment, his communicuff starts beeping. “There she is. Better run. You have things to tell her.”
100. “I’ll survive.”
101. “This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other’s keys.”
102. “hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the”
103. “They had to build up a rebel base in the Capitol, get some sort of underground organized in the districts,” he says. “Then they needed someone to set the whole thing in motion. They needed you.” “They needed Peeta, too, but they seem to have forgotten that,”
104. “Do you find this…distracting?”
105. “That what I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. 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. And only Peeta can give me that.”
106. “Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like… But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen”
107. “Yeah, we wouldn’t want to lose our little Mockingjay when she’s finally begun to sing.”
108. “I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
109. “To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents – even the most despicable – get special treatment.”
110. “I’ll be your Mockingjay”
111. “Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without.”
112. “I told you we should have rescued the boy first.”
113. “Never underestimate the power of a brilliant stylist.”
114. “I’ll be worthless.”
115. “People keep talking at me, talking, talking, talking”
116. “We both know I’m not above killing children, but I’m not wasteful. I take life for very specific reasons.”
117. “Instead I watch myself get shot on television.”
118. “It’s your own fault for being so camera-ready,” I tell Gale. If looks could kill.”
119. “I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good.”
120. “Smells like home.”
121. “Oh, Peeta, Don’t make me sorry I restarted your heart.”
122. “But one day I’l have to explain about my nightmares. Why they came. Why they won’t ever really go away. I’ll tell them how I survive it. 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’s when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I’ve seen someone do. It’s like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play.”
123. “You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.”
124. “Fire burns brighter in the dark.”
125. “On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.”
126. “I’m not too upset to answer that.”
127. “Real,” I answer. “Because that’s what you and I do, protect each other.”
128. “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.”
129. “All of these months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.”
130. “[..] every emotion I have has been taken and exploited by the Capitol or the rebels.”
131. “If there’s a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who’s trapped underground, I don’t know it.”
132. “There’s something else there as well, something entirely her own. An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”
133. “I must have loved you a lot.”