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And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.

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Mother, Wall, Taken

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.

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Frustration, Hair, Should Have

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.278, Scholastic Inc.

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At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

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Sexy, Witty, Cocky

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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Peeta: You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you. Finnick: Oh, Peeta. Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

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Sorry, Nice, Heart

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I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in any case. Because...she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark

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Winning, Thinking, Work Out

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Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

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Keys, Romance, Survival

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

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Sugar, Cubes, Calm

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It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.

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Weed, Should Have, Tree

Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.252, Scholastic Inc.

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I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.

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Jobs, Eye, Kissing

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Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

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Girl, Boys, Dying

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.16, Scholastic Inc.

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And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us.

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Want, Fiancee, Ifs

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I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

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Games, Long, Focus

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He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.

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Hate, Thinking, People

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.400, Scholastic Inc.

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You call that a kiss?

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Kissing, Hunger, Haymitch

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But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart.

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Sweetheart, I Can, Ifs

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.396, Scholastic Inc.

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No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.

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Mother, Confused, Kissing

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This is no place for a girl on fire.

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Girl, Fire, Catching On

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.263, Scholastic Inc.

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The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

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Flower, Night, Tree

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Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

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President Snow, Games, Katniss

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So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark

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Just Being, Shots, Catching

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Thank you for you consideration

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Consideration

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

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Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?

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Dog, Hate, People

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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I killed you. And you. And you.

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And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

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Cutting, Dark, Hands

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.258, Scholastic Inc.

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aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

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Fighting, Evil, Choices

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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