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I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

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Thinking, Sight, Names

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.347, Scholastic Inc.

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As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol, there’s nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. But there is no give to the surface - only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.

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Beautiful, Wall, Taken

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

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Home, Pay, Able

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

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I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.

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Thinking, Catching On, Mad

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.79, Scholastic

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i can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.

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Winning, Way, Loses

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See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

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Girl, Mother, Coal Miners

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While you live, the revolution lives

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Revolution

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.300, Scholastic

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I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

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Home, Mind, Pay

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

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She's Prim's size in diameter.

Suzanne Collins

Size

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Let the Hunger Games Begin!

Suzanne Collins

Games, Hunger

"The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

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Alive, Faults, I'm Alive

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.

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Thinking, Long, Competition

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I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

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Thinking, Color, Posies

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Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

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Pay, Firsts, Hardest

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.288, Scholastic Inc.

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The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. 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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Girl, Real, Hatred

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in.

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Moving, Cake, Giants

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Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

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Katniss, People, Bags

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They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.

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Trying, Naked, Littles

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.775, Scholastic Inc.

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When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch

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Catching Fire, Enemy, Arena

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I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

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Together, Flailing, Muscles

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1183, Scholastic Inc.

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Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

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Mean, Winning, Games

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Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

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Katniss, Trying, Sincere

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

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Years, Lasts, Duty

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Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

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Children, Sacrifice, Differences

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1455, Scholastic Inc.

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Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

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Rays, Woe, Forget

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.312, Scholastic Inc.

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