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You call that a kiss?

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Lunch makes me feel a bit better.

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I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fa...more

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I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversati...more

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I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but i...more

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hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.

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I'm going to wake Peeta," I say."No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his."Well, there's so little opportun...more

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What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

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He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinem...more

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Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come t...more

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Stay with me.Always.

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No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway.""To make sure Katniss is still here?" asks Peeta."Something like that,"..."That was fu...more

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Finnik?” I say. “Maybe some pants?”He looks down at his legs as if noticing them for the first time. Then he whips of his hospital gown, leaving him i...more

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I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.

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I'm left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick’s fate would have one day been mine. Why not? Snow could have gotten a really good price fo...more