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Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn’t it conquer all?

Another Katniss connection

Deep in the meadow,
under the willow
A bed of grass, a soft
green pillow
Lay down your head,
and close your sleepy
eyes
And when again they
open, the sun will rise.

Clerk Carmine brought Lucy Gray a plant he’d uprooted from the lake, with pointy leaves and small white flowers. “Hey, you found some katniss. Good work, CC.”

“You’re mine and I’m yours. It’s written in the stars.”

Lucy Gray wrote the Hanging Tree song!?

“I don't care what you say. You've no right to starve people punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn' give you that right. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn't give you that right. Nothing does.”

“It will only take a handful to get the word out,” said the Grandma’am. “It’s just the kind of story that catches fire.”

“For a moment he laughed, forgetting where they were, how depressing the backdrop. For a moment there was just her smile, the musical cadence of her voice, and the hint of flirtation.”