But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

I'm so tired, Katniss.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.