Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

i can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.

It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.

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