After winning the 74th Hunger Games in the previous novel, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark return home to District 12, the poorest sector in the fictional country of Panem. On the day that Katniss and Peeta are to start a "victory tour" of the country, she is visited by President Snow.... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
“I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't.”Katniss Everdeen
“What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.”Katniss Everdeen
“If I could've just hated him in the arena, we all wouldn't be in this mess now. He'd be dead, and I'd be a happy little victor all by myself.”Katniss Everdeen
“I feel that thing again. The thing I only felt once before. In the cave last year, when I was trying to get Haymitch to send us food. I kissed Peeta about a thousand times during those games and after. But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down. This time, there was nothing but us to interrupt us. And after a few attempts Peeta gives up on talking. The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest, down through my body, out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this us an entirely new kind.”Katniss Everdeen
“Finally something I'll be good at.”Katniss Everdeen
“And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.”Katniss Everdeen
“Katniss: I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now. | Cinna: Had a damp morning? | Katniss: You could wring me out.”
“I can almost hear him growling at me, 'Use your brain if you have one. What is it?'”Katniss Everdeen
“Now he's arranging things around my living room: clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick up one of the sketchbooks and examine a dress I supposedly created. "You know, I think I show a lot of promise."”Katniss Everdeen
“Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was nonexistant.”Katniss Everdeen
“Peeta's beside me, dressed in an outfit identical to mine. 'What did Finnick Odair want?' he asks. I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation of Finnick. 'He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,' I say in my best seductive voice. Peeta laughs. 'Ugh. Not really.'”Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark
“"So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.”Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark
“It's like when you wouldn't look at me naked in the arena even though I was half dead. You're so... pure," he says finally”Peeta Mellark
“Enemy. Enemy. The word is tugging at a recent memory. Pulling it into the present. The look on Haymitch's face. "Katniss, when you're in the arena..." The scowl, the misgiving. "What?" I hear my own voice as I bristle at some unspoken accusation. "You just remember who the enemy is," Haymitch says. "That's all.”
“I don't exaggerate when I say she pushed me out the door.”Katniss Everdeen talking about Effie Trinket
“At some point you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it”Katniss Everdeen
“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine... but I don't what your favorite color is?”Peeta Mellark
“I had to do that. At least once.”Gale Hawthorne
“Careful. There's a force field up ahead.”Peeta Mellark
“Johanna's nicknamed them Nuts and Volts," he says. " I think she's Nuts and he's Volts.""And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling up her breasts for wrestling," I retort.”Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark
“Katniss, the girl on fire, has left behind her flickering flames and bejeweled gowns and soft candlelight frocks. She is as deadly as fire itself.”Katniss Everdeen
“Did you choose me, Haymitch?” I ask. “Yeah,” he says.”Haymitch Abernathy and Katniss Everdeen
“"My nightmares are usually about losing you," he says. "I'm okay once I realize you're here."”Peeta Mellark
“Haymitch's name is called last of all. It's more of a shock to see him than my mother. Young. Strong. Hard to admit, but he was something of a looker. His hair dark and curly, those gray Seam eyes bright and, even then, dangerous. Snarky. Arrogant. Indifferent.”Katniss Everdeen describing Haymitch Abernathy
“What do you think?” he asks. “I hate them,” I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. “All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it, back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?” “I see them every night,” he says.”Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark
“Even if you pull it off, they'll be back in another few months to take us all to the Games. You and Peeta, you'll be mentors now, every year from here on out. And every year they'll revisit the romance and broadcast the details of your private life, and you'll never, ever be able to do anything but live happily ever after with that boy.” The full impact of what he's saying hits me. I will never have a life with Gale, even if I want to. I will never be allowed to live alone. I will have to be forever in love with Peeta. The Capitol will insist on it. I'll have a few years maybe, because I'm still only sixteen, to stay with my mother and Prim. And then ... and then ... “Do you understand what I mean?” he presses me. I nod. He means there's only one future, if I want to keep those I love alive and stay alive myself. I'll have to marry Peeta.”Haymitch Abernathy and Katniss Everdeen
“You would think that after all the hours I'd spent with Gale—watching him talk and laugh and frown — that I would know all there was to know about his lips. But I hadn't imagined how warm they would feel pressed against my own. Or how those hands, which could set the most intricate of snares, could as easily entrap me.”Katniss Everdeen
“"Aim higher in case you fall short." Snow said when he dabbed is puffy lip."How can I aim higher," I asked."Convince me” he says. He drops the napkin and retrieves his book. I don't watch him as he heads for the door, so I flinch when he whispers in my ear. “By the way, I know about the kiss.” Then the door clicks shut behind him.”President Snow and Katniss Everdeen
“I'd like to walk away too, but she grips my hand so tightly I would have to pry off her fingers, and I don't have the strength for that kind of cruelty.”Katniss Everdeen
“But his are overly full, the skin stretched too tight. I have to wonder if his mouth has been altered to make him more appealing. If so, it was a waste of time and money, because he's not appealing at all.”Katniss Everdeen
“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”Haymitch
“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”Cinna
“Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”Katniss Everdeen
“No wonder I won the Games. No decent person ever does. You saved Peeta, I think weakly. But now I question even that. I knew good and well that my life back in District 12 would be unlivable if I let that boy die.”Katniss Everdeen
“...I need to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help....Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”Katniss
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever.”Peeta Mellark
“I'm sorry Peeta.. I'm sorry I couldn't save you..”Katniss Everdeen
“Done knocking yourself out, sweetheart?”Haymitch Abernathy
“I wish she was dead. I wish they were all dead and we were too. It would be best.”Finnick Odair
“Oh, right, I'm supposed to be pregnant, I think. While I'm trying to think what that means and how I should act - maybe throw up or something - Finnik has positioned himself at the edge of the water.”Katniss Everdeen
“There's no choice but to strip him naked to get him clean, but I have to say this doesn't make much of an impression on me anymore. Our kitchen table's been full of so many naked men this year. You kind of get used to it after a while.”Katniss Everdeen
“Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”Katniss Everdeen (Referring to her mother)
“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?" "I don't know. I don't think or cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror." "You should wake me." "It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”Katniss and Peeta
“Why don't you get some sleep?" ": . . . (Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you, I think.)”Peeta and Katniss
“Lover? Forget about that. He abandoned any pretense of even being my friend. I wrap my arms tightly around his neck before he can order me to do push-ups or something. Instead he pulls me in close and buries his face in my hair. Warmth radiates from the spot where his lips just touch my neck, slowly spreading through the rest of me. It feels so good, so impossibly good, that I know I will not be the first to let go.”Katniss Everdeen (Referring to Peeta)
“Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness. Except possibly when it comes to you.”Peeta Mellark (Referring to Katniss)
“Do we sleep? I don't know. We spend the night holding each other, in some halfway land between dreams and waking. Not talking. Both afraid to disturb the other in the hope that we'll be able to store up a few precious minutes of rest.”Katniss Everdeen (Referring to her and Peeta)
“Because don't want you forgetting how different our circumstances are. If you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District Twelve. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.”Peeta Mellark (Referring to Katniss)
Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.Highlighted by 8894 Kindle customers
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says.Highlighted by 3859 Kindle customers
“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,” Peeta replies.Highlighted by 3785 Kindle customers
“Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness,” Peeta points out. “Except possibly when it comes to you.”Highlighted by 3780 Kindle customers
Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.Highlighted by 3637 Kindle customers
The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the Capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don’t know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.Highlighted by 3154 Kindle customers
Over the course of the last five years, the lake’s remarkably unchanged and I’m almost unrecognizable.Highlighted by 2385 Kindle customers
I watch his hands, his beautiful, capable fingers. Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and deft. Hands that have the power to mine coal but the precision to set a delicate snare. Hands I trust.Highlighted by 2254 Kindle customers
“Maybe I’d think that, too, Caesar,” says Peeta bitterly, “if it weren’t for the baby.”Highlighted by 2221 Kindle customers
I remember his words… “Don’t worry. I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don’t hurt anyone but myself.” …and I’m afraid he has hurt himself beyond repair. The significance of my fiery transformation will not be lost on President Snow.Highlighted by 2098 Kindle customers
Part 1: The Spark
Chapters 1 - 9
Part 2: The Quell
Chapters 10 - 18
Part 3: The Enemy
Chapters 19 - 27
On the back of the softcover book, it says: And the capital wants revenge. But in the book and further down the back, Capitol is spelled with an o, not an a.
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