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“Then you shoot me,' I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. 'You shoot me and go home and live with it!' And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two

'You know I can't,' Peeta says, discarding the weapons. 'Fine, I'll go first anyways.' He leans down and rips the bandage off his leg, eliminating the final barrier between his blood and the earth.

'No, you can't kill yourself,' I say. I'm on my knees desperately plastering the bandage back onto his wound.

'Katniss,' he says. 'It's what I want.'

'You're not leaving me here alone,' I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.”
― Jenny Nimmo, Midnight for Charlie Bone