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No wonder I won the games. No decent person ever does.
Catching Fire (2009)
You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.
Catching Fire (2009)
"I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever."
Catching Fire (2009)
"Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem."
Catching Fire (2009)
"I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it," I say.
Catching Fire (2009)
They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.
Catching Fire (2009)
It's better than hunting them down in the jungle, anyway. And I doubt they'll figure out our plan, since we can barely understand it ourselves.
Catching Fire (2009)
Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Like me, for instance. Right now.
Catching Fire (2009)
"Oh," I say under my breath. "Tick, tock." My eyes sweep around the full circle of the arena and I know she's right. "Tick, tock. This is a clock."
Catching Fire (2009)
He looks at my hand. “So it’s you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”
Catching Fire (2009)
"Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?"
Catching Fire (2009)
“When you’re on the chariot this time, no waving, no smiling. I just want you to look straight ahead, as if the entire audience is beneath your notice.”
“Finally something I’ll be good at,” I say.
Catching Fire (2009)
Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.
Catching Fire (2009)
Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.
Catching Fire (2009)
"Whatever problems anyone may have with the Capitol, believe me when I say that if it released its grip on the districts for even a short time, the entire system would collapse." [...]
"It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down."
Catching Fire (2009)
I squint down at my feet and see that my metal plate is surrounded by blue waves that lap up over my boots. Slowly I raise my eyes and take in the water spreading out in every direction.
I can only form one clear thought.
This is no place for a girl on fire.
Catching Fire (2009)