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“She has no idea. The effect she can have.”
But a tiny part of me wonders if this was a compliment. That he meant I was appealing in some way. It’s weird, how much he’s noticed me.
I wonder what Gale made of the incident for a moment and then I push the whole thing out of my mind because for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well together in my thoughts.
he did, it was all probably just part of his act. You know, to make people think he’s in love with me.” “Oh,” says Rue thoughtfully. “I didn’t think that was an act.”
“You here to finish me off, sweetheart?”
Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever. He’s great at this stuff.
“Well, it wouldn’t dare do anything else after you saved its life,” says Peeta. “I intend to do the same thing.”
said, ‘See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner,’” Peeta says.
“No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew — just like your mother — I was a goner,”
“I remember everything about you,”
“You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention.”
“You don’t have much competition anywhere.”
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. That if I do have feelings for him, it doesn’t matter because I’ll never be able to afford the kind of love that leads to a family, to children. And how can he? How can he after what we’ve just been through?
I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn’t be fair on my part.
