| Haymitch: | If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you? |
| I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn. |
“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!” - - - - - - - - -
As perguntaas estão apenas começando. As arenas foram completamente destruídas, os memoriais erguidos, não há mais Jogos Vorazes. Mais os professores dão aulas sobre eles na escola, e a menina sabe que desempenhamos um papel nesses eventos. O menino saberá daqui a alguns anos. Como posso falar para eles sobre aquele mundo sem deixa-los mortos de medo ? -
| I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. |
| Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips. |
| Katniss: | I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol has just bomed a hospital full of unarmed men, women and children. There will be no survivors. |
| The shock I've been feeling begins to give way to fury. | |
| Katniss: | I want to tell people that if you think for one second the Capitol will treat us fairly if there's a cease-fire, you're deluding yourself. Because you know who they are and what they do. |
| My hands go out automatically, as if to indicate the whole horror around me. | |
| Katniss: | This is what they do and we must fight back! |
| Katniss: | President Snow says he's sending a message Well I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? |
| One of the cameras follows where I point to the planes burning on the roof of a warehouse across from us. | |
| Katniss: | Fire is catching! |
| I am shouting now, determined he will not miss a word of it, | |
| Katniss: | And if we burnm you burn with us! |
| She zips back to the podium, and I don't even have time to wish for Gale's safety when she's reading the name. | |
| Effie: | Peeta Mellark. |
| Peeta Mellark! | |
| Oh, no, I think. Not him. Because I recognize this name, although I have never spoken directly to its owner. Peeta Mellark. | |
| No, the odds are not in my favor today. |
| It’s a long shot, it’s suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. | |
| Katniss: | Don’t let him take you from me. |
| Peeta’s panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. | |
| Peeta: | No. I don’t want to... |
| I clench his hands to the point of pain. | |
| Katniss: | Stay with me. |
| His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. | |
| Peeta: | Always |
| Katniss: | What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour. |
| Tell 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. |
| Haymitch: | He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television. |
| Katniss: | Are you and Beetee going? |
| Haymitch: | As many young and attractive victors as possible, So, no. We'll be here. |
| person: | i'm so glad i have mockingjay!!! |
| me: | everybody dies in the end. |
| person: | you are just kiddi- |
| me: | no |
| TeenVogue: | What was it like to audition for The Hunger Games? |
| Isabelle Fuhrman: | I actually auditioned originally for Katniss. I was fourteen when I auditioned, and I was too young. I was really upset because I thought I wasn't going to be in it, and I got a call two weeks later that they wanted me to audition for Clove. I learned two weeks after that that they wanted me for the part. I was so happy that I cried. |
| Katniss: | Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch? |
| Plutarch: | Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience, Look at the courage Peeta just displayed! |
| It's all I can do not to slap him. |
