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My father knew and he taught me some ways before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion.
So many fathers dying in the mines... SUZANNE
“District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety,”
My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal herbs and sell them to her shop to be brewed into remedies. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam.
Crying in SOTR
There’s never been anything romantic between Gale and me.
In seventy-four years, we have had exactly two. Only one is still alive.
Coriolanus really managed to erase every memory of Lucy Gray out there
He’s drunk. Very. The crowd responds with its token applause, but he’s confused and tries to give Effie Trinket a big hug, which she barely manages to fend off.
The way this hurts like hell now
The odds had been entirely in her favour. But it hadn’t mattered.
Everything Katniss did throughout the entire series was to save Prim and yet in the end none of it mattered and she still died. Talk about a knife in the heart Suzanne
Not even the ones holding betting slips,
Wyatt :(
It means thanks, it means admiration, it means goodbye to someone you love.
“More than you!” He releases me and starts for the front of the stage. “More than you!” he shouts, pointing directly into a camera.
Haymitch always rebelling, even when drunk off his ass
“Peeta Mellark.”
Baby boy!
Our eyes met for only a second, then he turned his head away.
Romance at its core
The first dandelion of the year.
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.
No because they’re actually destined? Not just star-crossed but universe made
His are as solid and warm as those loaves of bread. Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze.
No because hes always trying to look after her, my heart will never love someone the way i love peeta mellark
Maybe tributes have tried to escape in the past.
NAH
Peeta Mellark’s father.
“I’ll keep an eye on the little girl. Make sure she’s eating.”
He defo feels he owes a debt to Burdock for saving his life and that just breaks me
This worked very well for a girl, Johanna Mason, from District 7 a few years back. She seemed like such a snivelling, cowardly fool that no one bothered about her until there were only a handful of contestants left. It turned out she could kill viciously. Pretty clever, the way she played it.
Oh Johanna :(
My father was particularly fond of mockingjays.
“At least you two have decent manners,” says Effie as we’re finishing the main course. “The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion.”
Very Maysilee Donner core of you Effie
So I decide, from this moment on, to have as little as possible to do with the baker’s son.
HOW DID THAT WORK OUT FOR YOU HUH KATNISS?
Unfortunately, the packet of cookies hits the ground and bursts open in a patch of dandelions by the track.
“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
It’s going to be a big, big, big day!”
Not this phrase makin me cry now
Stay alive,”
“Who knows?” he says. “One of them may be rich.”
Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me the bread, is fighting hard to kill me.
Oh Katniss if only you knew
“How despicable we must seem to you,”
Since the baggy miners’ jumpsuits are not particularly becoming, our tributes usually end up in skimpy outfits and hats with headlamps.
“You’re not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?”
“With all that alcohol in him, it’s probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,” I say.
My girl is actually hilarious
“I think he said for us to hold hands,” says Peeta. He grabs my right hand in his left, and we look to Cinna for confirmation. He nods and gives a thumbs up, and that’s the last thing I see before we enter the city.
The hand holding being a part of it, a gentle act of defiance rather than Peeta doing it because the audience will "love it". UGH its so good, I would love to learn more about Cinna's role in the rebellion
“No, don’t let go of me,”
He doesnt want to let go of her hand now that hes holding it, oh Peeta how you make my heart warm
It’s not really fair to present us as a team and then lock us into the arena to kill each other.
Its almost as though it was all planned from the beginning
Don’t be so stupid. Peeta is planning how to kill you, I remind myself. He is luring you in to make you easy prey. The more likeable he is, the more deadly he is.
Katniiiiiiiss he loves yoooooou
‘Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns
to pearls!’”
“Unfortunately, I can’t seal the sponsor deals for you. Only Haymitch can do that,” says Effie grimly. “But don’t worry, I’ll get him to the table at gunpoint if necessary.”
“Just the perfect touch of rebellion,” says Haymitch. “Very nice.”
Haymitch understahnds rebellion so much, the fact that we don't realise that at thisbpoint he has been rebelling for 24 years already actually makes me want to rip my hair out
“Some kind of electric field throws you back on the roof.”
Haymitch's influence is EVERYWHERE
deciding for a moment to accept both his jacket and his kindness.
They make me SCREAM I love them
Beyond us, there’s only wilderness. If you don’t count the ruins of District 13 that still smoulder from the toxic bombs.
Suzanne always planning ahead!!!
“He knew your mother when they were kids,” says Peeta.
And her father! Sobbing
I watch the sun rise over the Capitol.
Every mention of a sunrise is simply going to kill me off
I’ve seen you in the market. You can lift fifty-kilo bags of flour,”
Shes noticed him all this time... Colour me sobbing
‘She’s a survivor, that one.’
As much as I love Katniss, Mrs Mellark can catch these hands!!! How dare you say that to your son!!!
“But only because someone helped me.”
“She has no idea. The effect she can have.”
I have kept track of the boy with the bread.
