KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.