Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

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 don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.