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Peeta and I are the only two dressed alike.
Makes me wonder if Haymitch wanted them to be a united front to appear like the Newcomers
You can never tell what you’ll find in the arena. Say it’s actually a gigantic cake—” begins Peeta.
Hes actually so funny i love him
One day, Peeta empties our bread basket and points out how they have been careful to include types from the districts along with the refined bread of the Capitol.
Its like she already knew that the bread would tell the time in the second book, even though this part was obviously written in so Katniss would understand the importance of the bread from Eleven
It’s impossible not to think of a bird.
Suzanne and her likening characters to birds
Rue is a small yellow flower that grows in the Meadow. Rue.
Birds and plants. Suzanneeeee
Not that Haymitch and Effie are fighting any more. Instead they seem to be of one mind,
Of one mind. Because they've been working together for so long at this point they know each other so well
It’s messing with my mind too much, trying to keep straight when we’re supposedly friends and when we’re not.
Unreliable narrator Katniss strikes again
“Thank you for your consideration,”
she really is THE MOMENT
They still need a girl tribute from District 12, don’t they?
BUT WE KNOW THAT IF THEY HAD TO THEY COULD MAKE ONE
Before that, though, they’ll give me a score so low, no one in their right mind would sponsor me.
Just like Haymitch :(
The saltiness reminds me of my tears.
Katniss is so dramatic I love her
“Doubt it. Be a pain to replace you at this stage,”
oooooooooof
“More likely they’ll make your life hell in the arena.”
“big, big, big day!”
Still makes me weep
was there some part of me that couldn’t help trusting him?
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
“And if they can’t catch me,
You'll never convince me that Olivia Rodrigo didn't write that song about Rue
The Gamemaker who fell in the punch bowl shouts out, “She’s not!”
Oh Plutarch
“I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning … won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out, “Because … because … she came here with me.”
you'll never catch me NOT screaming at this part of the book!!!!!!
“He made me look weak!” I say. “He made you look desirable!
Peeta really was trying to make sure Katniss won from the very start!!!
The star-crossed lovers from District Twelve!”
“Stay alive,”
I want to see the sky and the moon on the last night that no one will be hunting me.
“I don’t know how to say it exactly. Only … I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?” he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself? “I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not.”
Oh Peeta, the fact that they literally did exactly that to him :( his worst fear realised and made true
That I’m more than just a piece in their Games,”
“And remember this. I’m not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.”
Cinna really is one of those characters you can't help but love which makes his story so much sadder
which will make it handy for sawing through things
Oh Suzanne and her clever foreshadowing
All of a sudden, I’m overwhelmed by the thought that Peeta may be already lost,
The fact that even at this point, when she doesn't fully trust Peeta (a dumb move) and even feels betrayed by him (another foolish notion but understandable in the grand scheme of things) just shows how much Katniss cares about him before she ever has to go down the road of pretending to be in love with him
I’m relieved Peeta’s alive.
This is what I tell myself to explain the conflicting emotions that arise when I think of Peeta.
The last thing I think is it’s lucky I don’t snore…
Oh my boy Wyatt, the fact he never even made it to a point where snoring might affect him :(
The voice belongs to Peeta.
I remember feeling utterly betrayed by this the first time I read this book
Maybe he’s sending you a message,
I've always loved the language between Katniss and Haymitch when it comes to Sponsers, that she could always understand what he was trying to tell her based on what he sent or withheld
If you live, the hallucinations brought on by the venom have actually driven people to madness.
Sobbing in Mockingjay
This is the nature of the tracker-jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.
Breaks your heart on a reread
Gale and Peeta do not coexist well together in my thoughts.
A public whipping’s a rare thing in District 12,
either suzanne always plans ahead or she's fantastic at referring back to her own work, either way she's an excellent writer
how very lonely I’ve been in the arena.
And yet even with chapters of barely there dialogue, Suzanne has kept us entertained with her thrilling exposition and description, I ADORE her
I can’t help thinking of Peeta.
Bestie you are so IN LOVE
In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.
Lucy Gray always haunts the narrative
She pulls a necklace woven out of some kind of grass from her shirt. On it hangs a roughly carved wooden star. Or maybe it’s a flower. “It’s a good-luck charm.”
Maysilee Donner also haunts the narrative
It’s old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills.
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true Here is the place where I love you.
That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.
She could really be asleep in that meadow after all.
Now I am determined to avenge her, to make her loss unforgettable, and I can only do that by winning and thereby making myself unforgettable.
I call out Peeta’s name.
Peeta, it turns out, has never been a danger to me.
Never has Katniss, I just wish I could say that he never will...
“You here to finish me off, sweetheart?”
No I love him and I've missed him
“Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me any time you feel like it.”
