If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up

Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.

They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me. "I'm with the Mockingjay," he says.

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.