"Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena."
"That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that."
"Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life."
"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."
"A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it."
"Some walks you have to take alone."