You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to know about you, Katniss." "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to time in the past!" I say.