Ask Zo if it likes falafel, and it’ll dodge your questions like WHO dodges questions about Taiwan.


“They reaped him to kill him, Haymitch! To punish me! I can think of no realistic scenario in which he does not die. I can only hope that his death is quick and not in vain.”
― Sunrise on the Reaping
― Sunrise on the Reaping

“The four tributes from 6 stick to me like glue. My own little dove-colored flock. I hope they don’t all think I can protect them when we hit the arena, because I can’t.”
― Sunrise on the Reaping
― Sunrise on the Reaping

“I kind of thought maybe you would let me stay here or something. I don’t really know what happened with us in the end. She feels a sharp pain in her chest and her hand flies to her throat, clutching at nothing. You told me you wanted us to see other people, she says. I had no idea you wanted to stay here. I thought you were breaking up with me. He rubs his palm flat against his mouth for a second, and then breathes out.”
― Normal People
― Normal People

“In Sweden we have a saying, he says. There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.”
― Normal People
― Normal People

“She once told me about being arrested by the Peacekeepers back home, how frightened she was at first. Then she remembered she’d read that sometimes the only thing you can control is your attitude to a situation.”
― Sunrise on the Reaping
― Sunrise on the Reaping

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