We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.

That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.