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Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!

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Pain, Medicine, Giving

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.

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Reality, Katniss, Snapping

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

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Home, Two, Mutts

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.446, Scholastic Inc.

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That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead, only know I must reach her, protect her. I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, through anything that keeps me from reaching her. From reaching my little sister.

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Running, Pain, Lying

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.339, Scholastic Inc.

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A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and she stared fixatedly at a small stain on the tablecloth. Gregor remembered seeing her that way so many nights after his dad had disappeared. He didn't know what to say. He didn't want to scare her or shock her or ever give her any more pain. So, he stepped into the light of the kitchen and said the one thing he knew she wanted to hear most in the world. "Hey, Mom. We're home.

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Mom, Mother, Pain

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Just one more thing. I kill Snow.

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Snow, Just One

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.38, Scholastic

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Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. The whole time, she avoids my gaze. It’s only when Cinna shows up to approve me and dismiss her that she takes my hands, looks me straight in the eye, and says, “We would all like you to know what a…privilege it has been to make you look your best.” Then she hastens from the room.

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Tattoo, Determination, Eye

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.800, Scholastic Inc.

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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 if she's warding off a very bright light. "No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in." "And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena." "Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says.

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Light, Giving, Stupidity

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She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

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Girl, Mother, Cake

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Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

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Unfinished Business, President Snow, White

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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There was no discussion between them; it was as if the bugs had worked out this whole scenario long ago. Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone.

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Army, Long Ago, Bridges

Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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What say you, Luxa?" said Vikus. "What can I say, Vikus? Can I return to our people and tell them I withdrew from the quest when our survival hangs in the balance?" said Luxa bitterly. "Of course you cannot, Luxa. This is why he times it so," said Henry. "You could choose to - " started Vikus. "I could choose! I could choose!" retorted Luxa. " Do not offer me a choice when you know none exits!" She and Henry turned their backs on Vikus.

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People, Choices, Survival

Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

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Pain, Clueless, Years

"Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.

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Eye, Sun, Sleepy

Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

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Worry, Cost, Trouble

Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.273, Scholastic Inc.

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Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

Suzanne Collins

Desperate, Found

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

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Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

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Attention, Pay, Matter

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.102, Scholastic Inc.

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Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

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Brave, Be Brave, Counting

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

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You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.

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Thinking, Together, Done

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.693, Scholastic Inc.

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Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.

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Horse, Memories, Real

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.158, Scholastic Inc.

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Better not to give in to it.

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Giving, Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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Finnick:" Good to see you, Peeta." Peeta:" You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you." It could be a joke, if the tone wasn't so cold. Everything it conveys is wrong. The open distrust of Finnick, the implication that Peeta has his eye on Annie, that Annie could desert Finnick, that I do not even exist. Finnick:"Oh Peeta," says Finnick lightly. "Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

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Sorry, Nice, Heart

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It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.

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Oblivious

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.88, Scholastic Inc.

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Where did they get those screams, Katniss?

Suzanne Collins

Katniss, Scream

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.342, Scholastic Inc.

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If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

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Taken, Would Be, Way

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.269, Scholastic Inc.

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