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“Does he deserve to die?
He doesn’t deserve to live.
That’s the same thing, Rich said.
I don’t think it is, actually”

“we were all trying, all the time, I reminded myself. That’s how we become the people we are, impressionistically, chiseling lumps of selfhood off the truer, moldering form. There was always the effort to prove, though only certain people got to do so with pleasure. I tried to reel empathy from any part of myself”

“the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love”

“‘I have nothing to live for.’ I say this without even a note of self-pity. I am simply stating a fact.
‘Then you have nothing to lose. That puts you in a position of power.’…
‘I’m nobody’s idea of a hero, Haymitch. But at least I’m still in the game.’”

“She can’t stand for anything to be confined. Especially wild things, which, of course, she is.”

“A sister is someone you fight with and fight for. Tooth and nail.”

“How do I know? I feel like I constantly demonstrate poor judgment. I don’t feel qualified to choose between fried or scrambled eggs.”
me as fuck

“We never really recover, just move on the best we can.”

“you never really know who’d swim in a flood”

“Instead of giving up, maybe I’ll see if I can’t be of some tiny use to someone else”

“Hoping for something better could be dangerous; it could blind me to the reality of my situation. I remember how Mamaw always said, “Where there’s life, there’s hope.” But from where I’m sitting, hope seems a lot like white liquor. It can fool you in the short run, but like as not, you’ll end up paying for it twice.”

“Distraught, but unbruised, unbeaten, unbroken, and safe at home”

“this poisonous beauty of an arena”

“he was protecting Lou Lou, the way no one had ever protected him”
Wyatt 🥺

“Most people wouldn’t say this… but they wouldn’t stop another from doing so”

“he wasn’t a bad guy, really. He just came from a rotten family.”

“It’s lonely going rogue.”

“he mentions the tools that were abolished and incapacitated in the past, ones deemed fated to destroy humanity because of their ability to replicate any scenario using any person. ‘And in mere seconds!’… ‘I guess it was the right thing to do, given our natures. We almost wiped ourselves out even without them… But oh, the possibilities!’
Yeah, it’s amazing we’re here at all. Given our natures.”

“His words from a few minutes ago echo back. ‘You should know that, despite appearances, a desire for freedom is not limited to the districts.’ Was he suggesting that he, with all his wealth and privilege and power, lacks freedom?”

“don’t spend your life grieving me, love whoever you want”

“You stay alive, play your songs, love your people, live the best life you can.”

“Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn’t have to be so terrifying. That’s on people, not the world.”

“a desire for freedom is not limited to the districts. And your misfortune does not give you the right to assume so.”

“how will she ever know that was only a teaspoon of trouble in my river of wrong?”

“she’s delightful to look at, swishes around in bright colors, and sings like a mockingjay. You love her. And oh, how she seems to love you. Except sometimes you wonder, because her plans don’t include you at all.”

“I think about how many people spent their lives building this place, how many died before its completion, so that the Heavensbees could have somewhere to hang their pictures. Their smug, satisfied, ridiculous pictures. Well, the joke’s on the Heavensbees. Now they’re dead, too.”

“He’s lost me already, but i nod like he’s making sense”
Oh, he’s me

“music can be a bridge to better understanding between people because most everybody loves a good tune… most everybody loves breathing, too, and where did that get us? Some loves don’t signify”

“As much pain as my loved ones feel now, how long will it be until I am just a memory?”

“Either we outrun the storm or it outruns us”