grace’s Reviews > The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes > Status Update

“she could fly around district 12 all she liked, but her mockingjays could never harm him again.”

“clark carmine brought lucy gray a plant he uprooted from the lake, with pointy leaves and small white flowers.”
“hey, you found some katniss.”

“the truth was, most of what the capitol did, he supported, and the rest rarely concerned him.”

“he didn’t mind the jabberyjays so much - they seemed rather interesting from a military standpoint- but something about the mockingjays repelled him. he distrusted their spontaneous creation. nature running amok. they should die out, and die out soon.”

“coriolanus felt sure he’d spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.”

“well you know what they say. the show’s not over until the mockingjay sings.”
“the mockingjay? really, i think you’re just making these things up.”
“not that one. a mockingjay’s a bona fide bird.”
“and it sings in your show?”
“not my show sweetheart. yours. the capitol’s anyway,”
“that’s must be what she’d meant. the capitol’s show was the hanging.”

“but i wouldn’t be surprised if we see lucky flickerman back again next year, or the post office open for gifts and betting.”
“our legacy.”

“you were set up to fail. the hunger games are an unnatural, vicious punishment. how a good person like you be expected to go along with them?”
“you mustn’t say that to anyone but me. it isn’t safe.”
“i know. and that’s wrong, too.”