maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.

I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.” -Katniss Everdeen

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred. . . . Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena