The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

by Suzanne Collins

Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion, though. A sign of prosperity,

Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.

“I started out as a medical doctor, you know,” she said. “Obstetrics.” How awful, Coriolanus thought. To have you be the first person in the world a baby sees.