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  • #181
    Suzanne Collins
    “Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #182
    Suzanne Collins
    “I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #183
    Suzanne Collins
    “It costs your life,鈥� says Caesar.

    鈥淥h, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?鈥� says Peeta. 鈥淚t costs everything you are.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #184
    Suzanne Collins
    “I'm so tired, Katniss.”
    Suzanne Collins , Mockingjay

  • #185
    Suzanne Collins
    “As I descend the stairs, I can鈥檛 help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol, there鈥檚 nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. But there is no give to the surface - only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #186
    Suzanne Collins
    “I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #187
    Suzanne Collins
    “Are you and Beetee going?鈥� I ask.
    鈥淎s many young and attractive victors as possible,鈥� Haymitch corrects himself. 鈥淪o, no. We'll be here.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #188
    Suzanne Collins
    “The sun eventually rises, it's light slipping through the cracks and illuminating Peeta's face. Who will he transform into if we make it home? This perplexing, good-natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly the whole of Panem believes him to be hopelessly in love with me, and I'll admit it, there are moments when he makes me believe it myself?”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #189
    Suzanne Collins
    “For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #190
    Suzanne Collins
    “I guess there isn鈥檛 a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #191
    Suzanne Collins
    “Our rocky ledge overlooking the valley. Perhaps a little less green than usual, but the blackberry bushes hang heavy with fruit. Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #192
    Suzanne Collins
    “Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #193
    Suzanne Collins
    “I shift on to my side and find myself looking directly into Gale's eyes. For an instant the world recedes and there is just his flushed face, his pulse visible at his temple, his lips slightly parted as he tries to catch his breath.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #194
    Suzanne Collins
    “I killed you. And you. And you.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #195
    Suzanne Collins
    “It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #196
    Suzanne Collins
    “I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #197
    Suzanne Collins
    “She鈥檚 really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #198
    Suzanne Collins
    “Here it's safe, here it's warm
    Here the daises guard you from every harm
    Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
    Here is the place where I love you”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #199
    Suzanne Collins
    “Far below, I can just make out Finnick, struggling to hang on as three mutts tear at him. As one yanks back his head to take the death bite, something bizarre happens. It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then it's over.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #200
    Suzanne Collins
    “I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: fear

  • #201
    Suzanne Collins
    “I don鈥檛 want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #202
    Suzanne Collins
    “A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #203
    Suzanne Collins
    “I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #204
    Suzanne Collins
    “I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth at a ridiculous rate and i feel vomit at the back of my throat. I swallow hard and open my lips so I can get the stupid line out and go hide in the woods and-that's when i start crying.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #205
    Suzanne Collins
    “Just one more thing. I kill Snow.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #206
    Suzanne Collins
    “Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #207
    Suzanne Collins
    “I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. 鈥淜atniss鈥e鈥檚 still trying to keep you alive.鈥� To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #208
    Suzanne Collins
    “Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta," she says. Of course, she says this; it's what she thinks will calm me. But her next words come as a surprise. "If he does, he won't have anyone left you want. He won't have any way to hurt you.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #209
    Suzanne Collins
    “My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #210
    Suzanne Collins
    “Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile.
    We're halfway down the first tunnel when I realize what was so remarkable about that exchange. Peeta sounded like his old self, the one who could always think of the right thing to say when nobody else could... I glance back at him as he trudges along under his guards, Gale and Jackson, his eyes fixed on the ground, his shoulders hunched forward. So dispirited. But for a moment, he was really here.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay



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