All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.
You love me. Real or not real? I tell him, Real.
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at himTell him that. Thats not nothing.Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
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.
Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
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.
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.
Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
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