Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!

Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.

Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

What do you think?" he asks. "I hate them," I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. "All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?" "I see them every night," he says.

I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.

And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. “Don’t do that,” I say. “What? Come up or stay under?” he says. “Either. Neither. Whatever

That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family.