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Her people were great travelers once, going from district to district to perform their music. Tam Amber remembers it, as he was about my age when the war ended and the Peacekeepers rounded up the Covey, killing all the adults and confining the kids to our district.

— Suzanne Collins Sunrise on the Reaping (2025)

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Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

Mockingjay (2010)

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)

You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

The Hunger Games (2008)

Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn't have to answer to kings and queens."

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