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Lunch makes me feel a bit better.

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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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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...more

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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,...more

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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.

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Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

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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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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?

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The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hung...more

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Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leavin...more

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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...more

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I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

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Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask."Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should nev...more