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Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

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Rip, Moving, Sitting

Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.244, Scholastic Inc.

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You can’t miss your schedule. Every morning, you’re supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside of your forearm with your schedule for the day in a sickly purple ink. 7:00—Breakfast. 7:30—Kitchen Duties. 8:30—Education Center, Room 17. And so on. The ink is indelible until 22:00—Bathing

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Tattoo, Morning, Wall

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I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. And I remember when you... you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said... "Who knows The Valley Song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I... I watched you going home every day...

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Song, Teacher, Home

"The Hunger Games". m.imdb.com. 2012.

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But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.

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Couple, Looks, Paper

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

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That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

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Saws, Firsts, First Time

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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It's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.

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Pay, Firsts, Hardest

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

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Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.

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Want, Littles, Yeah

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.108, Scholastic Inc.

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I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

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Opponents, Underestimate, Forgotten

Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.226, Scholastic UK

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Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch

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Stupidity, Blame, Killing

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Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.

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Tables, Helping, Truth Is

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.59, Scholastic Inc.

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Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

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Plant, Tricky

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.

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Children, Names, People

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him." -Katniss Everdeen

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Goodbye, Years, Two

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What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?

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Katniss, Buttons, World

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

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Eye, Blue, Promise

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No more kisses for you, until you have eaten !

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Kissing

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

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Home, Winning, Dies

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Tuck in your tail, little duck.

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Ducks, Tails, Littles

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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Actually, Katniss isn’t complaining because she has no intention of staying with the “Star Squad,” but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan.

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Stars, Squad, Katniss

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.257, Scholastic Inc.

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Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

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Team, Hair, Skins

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.59, Scholastic Inc.

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and when he kissed me i didn't know what to do.

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Knows

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That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

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Book, Doubt, Anything Goes

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.

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Stars, Sick, Lovers

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.601, Scholastic Inc.

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It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

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Hate, Team, Katniss

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I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

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Blue, Feet, Green

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1274, Scholastic Inc.

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