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“‘I’ll be downstairs. Text me if you need anything.’ The line between her eyes disappeared. ‘Even if it feels like I’m inconveniencing you?’ ‘Especially if it feels like that. Maybe then, you’ll learn you aren’t.’”

so cute, whattt 🥹

“‘It’s silly, I know. You’d think I’d have grown out of needing to hold someone’s hand when I’m scared.’

‘Do people ever grow out of that? I think we all just figure out how to pretend we don’t want a hand to hold.’”

aw wait stop, that’s actually so bittersweet what

“Rémy opens the blinds and then the window, and I admire the way his muscles aid in this process. Good friends should always notice and encourage their friends’ strengths.”

LOL denial is a river in Egypt, miss ma’am

“She’s got an eye for beauty, ready to see it everywhere. Part of me wonders if that’s her secret—she’s so good at looking for the beautiful that she becomes it.”

oh my heart 🥹

it may be too early to start reading holiday romances… but I fear I’m a Christmas girly through and through to not

“‘I’d like to hold you,’ Bennett says, and our cheeks bear matching red stains almost immediately. ‘If that’s okay.’ I nod.”

the consent?? we love to see it

“‘I’m sorry, I blurt out anyway, hands to my reddened cheeks. ‘Should I change?’ His brow wrinkles sharply as he looks me over, seemingly for the first time. ‘Why?’ There is genuine confusion in his voice. ‘You look very beautiful.’”

Bennett and Paloma are already so precious

“To the ones who had to put on armour every day, no matter how heavy it was or how much it hurt—this one is for you.”

I just know I’ll cry reading this

I got to read “unloved” as an arc and you best believe I was so excited when I got approved for “unbound”! so excited to read this!!

“I want to be noticed in a crowded room. I want to be the only person in a crowded room. I want to be wanted, truly wanted, and desired. I want to laugh and to sing and to dance with someone and not feel self-conscious over it because I love them and I’m confident that they love me. I want to be touched and kissed and held, because I’ve forgotten what it feels like… and yet, I think I deserve it.”

same

“I’ll buy you flowers every day for the rest of my life if it makes you this happy.”

this is so wholesome

“I expected him to look horrified or confused, but rather I was met with the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. He was blushing. His cheeks were pink, and his eyes were turned down, while everyone else’s were glued to him.”

when guys become shy and lovestruck >>

“He’s dozed off again, but I miss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever. He’s great at this stuff.”

if only she knew he was never pretending 🥺

“‘Trust me. Killing things is much easier than this,’ I said. ‘Although for all I know, I am killing you.’ ‘Can you speed it up a little?’ he asks. ‘No. Shut up and eat your pears,’ I say.

LOL I wish we had more of Katniss and Peeta’s banter in the movies

“‘Why don’t we give it some air and then…’ I trail off. ‘And then you’ll patch it up?’ says Peeta. He looks almost sorry for me, as if he knows how lost I am.”

the fact that Peeta is literally incapacitated and yet he’s still worried about how Katniss feels 💔

“‘Lean down a minute first,’ he says. ‘Need to tell you something.’ I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle as he whispers. ‘Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.’”

oh Peeta, they missed out on your charm and humour in the movies

“‘Burn it. Dump it in the lake. Soak it in fuel.’ I poke Rue in the belly, just like I would Prim. ‘Eat it!’ She giggles.”

🥺🥺 oh Rue

I’m starting way too much many books and not finishing them, but in my defence, this is due to be returned soon!

“Everything has changed. Please forgive me. S.”

I’m sat. what made him change his mind?

The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments.

I forgot about this little detail but it’s so messed up. it’s like people touring sites of mass murders for spring break or something

”Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games,” says Peeta.

I think people forget how much perspective Peeta holds from all his struggles, despite being more well-off than Katniss. how many of the other tributes his age felt the same way as him but never had the courage or wisdom to come to terms with it?

”I don’t know how to say it exactly. Only… I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense? he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself? “I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not.”

my poor Peeta, huhuhu if only he knew

Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because… because… she came here with me.”

Ahhhh please, I eat this up every time!!

“They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner. In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival.”

I love how this parallels so much to our beauty standards today

“‘I should have tried to save you,’ I whisper. She shakes her head. Does this men we were right to stand by? That she has forgiven me? ‘No, it was wrong,’ I say.”

I feel like Katniss’ interaction with the Capitol Avox is really important. She has this hatred for the Capitol yet thinks that she’s just as bad as them for failing to rescue the girl and the boy that day

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”

she’s just a girl and she’s on fire!!

“‘Patience is a really admirable quality,’ I whisper. ‘I hope you don’t have a limited amount.’ ‘Infinite,’ he promises, and a tremor ripples through me.”

love the soft gentle yearning!! ahh!!

“It’s better to try now than to wait until the timing or circumstances feel exactly right. If you wait until things are perfect, you’ll be waiting your whole life. And if you never take the risk, you’ll won’t ever know.”

true, true, true

“I burst out. ‘They’re not my friends!’ ‘Well, try and pretend!’ snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. ‘See, like this. I’m smiling at you even though you’re aggravating me.’”

these two are so unserious

“Peeta laughs and asks questions right on cue. He’s much better at this than I am.”

the movies robbed Peeta of his humour, we saw parts of it but not enough for people to get he wasn’t “weak” and was actually very charming and conversational