I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.

But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart.

Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

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.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.