Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?

I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.