If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

Let the Hunger Games Begin!

what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.

I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.” Annie, who's on Johanna's other side, does that thing where she covers her ears and exits reality. Finnick shoots Johanna an angry look as his arm encircles Annie. “What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy,” replies Johanna.

Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.