"

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

"

Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

"

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

"

Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once.

"

Lunch makes me feel a bit better.

"

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.

"

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

"

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...more

"

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...more

"

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

"

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 ...more

"

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

"

So what should we do with our last few days?”“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,” Peete replies.“Come on, the...more

"

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.

"

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.