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I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

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Thinking, Ideas, Forever

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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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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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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What do you think?" he asks. "I hate them," I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. "All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?" "I see them every night," he says.

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Hate, Night, Thinking

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'll ether be dead or with us. It's...it's more than we could hope for! Well, that's a sunny view of our situation.

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Views, Katniss, The End Of The Day

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Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

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Nightmare, Because I Can, Without You

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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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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Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

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Long, Add, Annie

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.

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Kissing, Sight, Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.447, Scholastic UK

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Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

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Girl, Girl Talk

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.

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The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

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Rising, Sun, Persist

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.9, Scholastic

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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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I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.

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Wish, Would Be, Want

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.389, Scholastic Inc.

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I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.

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Crazy, Heart, Years

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

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My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who, of all the people in this rotting world, has turned Peeta and me into pieces in his Games. I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. And he has betrayed me.

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Hands, Games, People

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.389, 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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Want a sugar cube?- Finnick Odair,

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Want, Sugar, Cubes

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I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s no going back.

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Ease, Time Passes, Knows

Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.269, Scholastic UK

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I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.” “The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say. Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.

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Kissing, Get Better, Able

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.197, 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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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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I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.

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Strong, Heart, Silence

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.839, Scholastic Inc.

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It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.

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Flower, Fire, Blue

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And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible.

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Wall, Two, Space

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1208, Scholastic Inc.

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To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

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Boys, Connections, Bread

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

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