Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.

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

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him." -Katniss Everdeen

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.