As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

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

For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.

Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.

Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you!

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.