My mother says healers are born, not made.

Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.