Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.

Beauty that arose out of pain.