Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
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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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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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The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all
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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 f...
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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?
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What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?
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Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
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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.
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I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.
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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 ba...
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Stay with me.Always.
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No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway.""To make sure Katniss is still here?" asks Peeta."Something like that,"..."That was fu...
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I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.
