They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.