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.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.

So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.