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For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

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Grandma, Reality, Years

Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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Want a sugar cube?- Finnick Odair,

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Want, Sugar, Cubes

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Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.

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Watches, Television, Shots

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.171, Scholastic

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Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.

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Running, Drink, Liquor

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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And we must fight back! President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

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Fighting, Fire, President Snow

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

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I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

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Letting Go, Games, Katniss

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.483, Scholastic Inc.

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Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run

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Running, Years, Wake Up

Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games (Movie tie-in)”, p.10, Scholastic UK

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Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

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Eye, Tree, Forests

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.140, Scholastic Inc.

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Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

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Children, Sacrifice, Katniss

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.

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Dream, Giving, Brain

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

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Home, Missing, Remember

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

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Twenties, Three, Embodiment

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.712, Scholastic Inc.

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Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.

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Men, Tree, Waiting

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.130, Scholastic Inc.

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Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.

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Thinking, Prey, Vulnerability

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.66, Scholastic Inc.

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The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

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Broken Heart, Pain, Leaving

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You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.

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Fall, Taken, Thinking

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It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, "I think you'd be pretty in any color." The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you.

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Thinking, Color, Tears

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.

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Mother, Real, Medicine

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.321, Scholastic Inc.

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You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.

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Feelings, Looks, Alive

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

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How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” “The more you can distract yourself the better, ” he says. “First thing tomorrow, we’ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.

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Morning, Katniss, Relief

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I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

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President Snow, Monsters, Despise

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.296, Scholastic

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Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

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Perfect One, Cameras, Looks

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.141, Scholastic Inc.

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It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.

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Rocks, Sky, Waves Breaking

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1375, Scholastic Inc.

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I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

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Eye, Mind, Trying

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.

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Girl, Fire, Remember

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.205, Scholastic

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