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Young Haymitch and Katniss are so much alike. But what surprised me is that young Haymitch is more emotionally mature and self-reflective than Katniss is in the first book. He's still very defensive and grumpy —and deservedly so, given all the things that went wrong and being sent to fight to the death— but at least he's more emotionally literate.

When my English teacher gave me this book in 12th grade, l did not expect to read 2 paragraphs of an Indian boy catching tiger feces in a cup and trying to eat it.

When my English teacher gave me this book in 12th grade, I'd expected to read 2 paragraphs of an Indian boy catching tiger feces in a cup and trying to eat it.

"Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness — how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have a things? This peephole is all I've got!"

"if you want to see wildlife it is on foot, and quietly, that you must explore a forest. It is the same with the sea. You must stoll though the Pacific at a walking pace, so to speak, to see the wealth and abundance that it holds."

Also the paragraph that describes the ocean as if it is a city in rush hour is so beautiful.

Sally Rooney why do u hate Yeats?
(For real tho, I didn't know he was a fascist before this book.)

比較喜歡Normal People。這本是第一人稱敘事，加上主角是個習慣內耗、壓抑情感的人（原生家庭影響），我覺得她算是個unreliable narrator，而且因為第一人稱的關係，會不自覺代入自己然後跟著一起內耗，讀起來好累。還有這本在講的事情對我來說實在太瑣碎了，所以有好幾頁我都是大概掃過去、跳著看。

話說這本出現的Marianne跟Normal People裡的是同一個嗎🤔

"Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go."

"Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?"

"And what of my extended family—birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities—the getting of food, clothing, and shelter?"

“Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”

"To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity."

"These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but a small clearing of each heart."

Hilarious banter among a priest, a pandit, and a imam.

"I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both."

Oh hi, Peeta's grandma, probably

The Plinths symbolize immigrants and the Snows symbolize lower class white people/high class who have come down in the world

1) The plot is finally picking up the pace, but I still prefer the trilogy for now.

2) Don't know what the Academy's syllabus looks like but at least give Coryo some books on Hobbs, Locke, and Rousseau if you want him to write a whole paper on social contracts. Otherwise it's pretty unfair. The kid is like 17 or 18 Dr. Gaul.

Not young Snow also denying his feelings like Katness💀. "It's all for the games and to get back at Sejanus," pfff yeah sure

I don't buy it that Katniss would agree to another Hunger Game with people directly related to those in power in the Capitol, or that Haymitch would go along with it. I know Katniss is still grieving Prim and unsure which side killed her, and that Haymitch has a soft spot for Katniss, but it just doesn't make sense for their characters imo.

Tigris??? As in President Snow's sister Tigris Snow????

“Next time we see each other, we'll be free of *him," says Prim firmly. (*Snow)
DON'T THINK ABOUT THE PRIMROSES PEETA PLANTS FOR KATNISS. DON'T THINK ABOUT THE PRIMROSES PEETA PLANTS FOR KATNISS. DON'T THINK —

Linda Hamilton would be perfect for the role of Lyme

"We didn't see Peeta. Only the propo on Eight. Then we turn the set off because the images upset you. Got it?"
This is why Finnick is one if the best character in THG.

5 November.

Everytime Bram Stoker needs a word to describe female vampires: vuLOptuOUs

I'm reading via Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula, so I have no idea what page I'm on.
The Harkers are my sweet little babies who can do no wrong. (不過Mina有點太聖母+damsel in distress)

What kind of evil person would ruin chocolate cake for a little boy?

I keep imagining Saul Goodman as Mr. Wormwood.

Back after googling "the triumphant look," it's because Dumbledore knows that Harry can be spared.