How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

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

I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

I say we try it,' says Peeta. 'Katniss is right.' Finnick looks at Johanna and raises his eyebrows. He will not go forward without her. 'All right,' she says finally. 'It's better than hunting them down in the jungle, anyway. And I doubt they'll figure out our plan, since we can barely understand it ourselves.

The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.