I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.