Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

"Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor."

"It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today."

"You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?"

"Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at himTell him that. Thats not nothing.Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people."

"Katniss, the girl who was on fire!"

"District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety."

"We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it."

"You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."

"Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you."

"Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there."

"For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first."

"I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone."

"I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt."

"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."

"One more time? For the audience?"he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."

"Destroying things is much easier than making them."

"He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever."

"You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?"

"And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me."

"Because...because...she came here with me."