“I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent spe...”
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Author detail
American author of young adult literature, whose works include *The Hunger Games* trilogy and *The Underland Chronicles* series. The daughter of an Air Force officer, she lives in her native home of Connecticut.
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“I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent spe...”
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“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistak...”
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“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”
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“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”
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“You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.”
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“Stay with me. Always.”
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“Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?” “Oh, let’s see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red pl...”
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“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”
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“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”
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“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the...”
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“Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, 'How do you bear it?' Finnick looks at me in disbelief. 'I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I d...”
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“If Under fell, if Over leaped, If death was life and Death life reaped, Something rises from the gloom, To make the Underland a tomb Hear it scratching down below, Rat of long forgotten snow...”
“Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”
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“Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breath Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate”
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“Only.. I want to do die as myself”
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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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“If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up”
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“If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”
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“It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this...”
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“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”
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