Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.
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You call that a kiss?
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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
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Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once.
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Lunch makes me feel a bit better.
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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.
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I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fa...
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What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)
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I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversati...
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I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but i...
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Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil th...
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You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile."Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as i...
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But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together."I'm not glad," says Peeta. "I wish we had waited until the wh...
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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,...
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Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.
