When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch

Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

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