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

“You know what I won’t miss? People. Except for a handful. They’re mostly awful, if you think about it.”
Feeling this strongly, lately.

😢 Oh man, that hurt.

“Coriolanus felt sure he’d spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.” Ha! 😉

“What happened in the arena? That’s humanity undressed. The tributes. And you, too. How quickly civilization disappears. All your fine manners, education, family background, everything you pride yourself on, stripped away in the blink of an eye, revealing everything you actually are. A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That’s mankind in its natural state.”

“Well, you know what they say. The show’s not over until the mockingjay sings.” 😉

“The truth is, we were all so busy killing each other that we forgot how to have fun.”

Part II

“It was the government’s job to protect everybody, even the people in the districts. If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life . . . then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that was for sure. And if you couldn’t trust them, who could you trust? All bets were off.”