Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

I killed you. And you. And you.

It starts at midnight.

You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?" "Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.