“And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“When I am feeling dreary, annoyed and generally unimpressed by life, I imagine what it would be like to come back to this world for just a day after having been dead. I imagine how sentimental I would feel about the very things I once found stupid, hateful or mundane. Oh, there’s a light switch! I haven’t seen a light switch in so long! I didn’t realize how much I missed light switches! Oh! Oh! And look – the stairs up to our front porch are still completely cracked! Hello cracks! Let me get a good look at you. And there’s my neighbor, standing there, fantastically alive, just the same, still punctuating her sentences with you know what I’m saying? Why did that bother me? It’s so… endearing.”
― Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
― Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
“People aren’t so bad, really,” she said. “It’s what the world does to them.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Because feeling good about yourself doesn't come from changing how you look," she says. "It comes from changing how you see yourself. Learning to see yourself the way the people who love you see you.”
― Turtle Boy
― Turtle Boy
“She could fly around District 12 all she liked, but she and her mockingjays could never harm him again.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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