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“Do you understand? It’s heroes and villains all the way down, and they are indistinguishable from one another except to those in the heat of the moment.”

okay, suzanne really did lose any of the subtlety from the first trilogy in this book (i don’t think i’m enjoying it as much on the reread)

“And that’s when the rest of the parachutes go off.”

top ten most devastating ways to end a chapter

goodreads overlords i am BEGGING YOU to let me post stickers as updates. words can’t do it justice.

is boggs the most under appreciated hunger games trilogy character of all time or am i just late to the party

“Several sets of arms would embrace me.
But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. ‘It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart.’ He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.”

lucy gray you haunt this narrative so stunningly

I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory. Is this where it gets me, on my feet, several feet ahead of me? I see it coming, do I run or fire my gun or let it be? There is no beat, no melody.

it’s hard to stay mad at someone who cries so much

THE GAME IS ON AGAIN!!!!!!! a lover or a friend?

remember who the real enemy is…

peeta “baby bomb” mellark i love you so much

“We watch from the point of view of one of the tributes…” *insert the soldier with the haunted thousand yard stare*

“I feared I’d never know - that’s the problem with such chaos. You lose so much around the edges.”

and just when you think things can’t get much worse, she didn’t even get to say goodbye

“This message is from a deceased crawler.”

*insert that picture of the soldier with the thousand yard stare*

“‘The very nature of most magic spells is cold cruelty, and that shows when the magic itself is allowed to talk.’”

oh!!!!!

“It’s going to get worse before it gets better. We’re going to lose more friends. We’re going to have to do some pretty horrible things just to survive. When I’d said that, this was what I’d been talking about. This moment that was going to come in one hour and forty-five minutes. What gives me the right?”

oh BROTHER

“‘This isn’t technically a boss battle, but c’mon! We can all agree this pretty much counts. Look at the combatants, look at the stakes! Look at the goddamned drama.’”

“‘What’s coming?’ she asked. The inevitable ruin, I thought.“

RAAAAHHHHHHHH

“Welcome to the party, pals.” (harbinger of terror and doom)

the game is on again!

“No matter what happens, none of us are getting out of this unscathed. We gain things, and we lose them. That’s what happens in war.”

ominous ass note

“Sometimes, things are exactly what they seem to be. Sometimes, there are no surprises. And despite that, despite your intention to gird yourself against what’s about to come, it still hits you with the force of a kick to the stomach.” :(

i wish i didn’t have so many Responsibilities to take care of so that i could just read six of crows

yeah baby, we’re back

“You decide you won’t be at the mercy of nature. You decide you’ll control nature, and from that moment on you’re in deep trouble.”