A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the det...
A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
Haymitch Abernathy: [Stops Katniss from assaulting him] You and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
Katniss Everdeen: Nobody decent ever wins the games. Haymitch Abernathy: Nobody ever wins the games. Period. There are survivors. There's no winners.
[from trailer] Primrose Everdeen: You saved my life. You gave me a chance. Katniss Everdeen: Yes, to live. Primrose Everdeen: No, to do something.
[the morning of the games] Katniss Everdeen: I don't want to be with anyone else in there. Just you. Peeta Mellark: If that's what you want. Katniss Everdeen: That's what I want.
Cinna: No waving and smiling this time. I want you to look straight ahead as if the audience and this whole event are beneath you. Katniss Everdeen: That should be easy.
Peeta Mellark: [after almost dying from walking into a force field disguised as a jungle] Be careful, it's a force field up there.
[from trailer] Katniss Everdeen: You understand, that what ever I do, it comes back to you and mom. I don't want you to get hurt.
If you want your children to enjoy a quiet life let them suffer a little hunger and a little cold.
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.
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.
It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death." "Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-
I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.
This is the first kiss that we’re both fully aware of… This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another.
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.
That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
Emma turned to him, bottom lip trembling. “For me?” “Always for you. All things for you. He coughed into his fist “All your own.
God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.
