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“Panem et Circenses”

“That doesn’t seem very fair to the deer,” I say.
“Wouldn’t be using it on deer, would I?” He answers.

“And now Coin, with her fistful of precious nukes and her well-oiled machine of a district, finding it’s even harder to groom a Mockingjay than to catch one.”

“‘Are you actually defending them?’ …
That stings, because, in fact, I am, and it’s ridiculous. I struggle to find a logical position. ‘I guess I’m defending anyone who’s treated like that for taking a slice of bread.’ … Still, he’s right … I should hate them and want to see them strung up. But they’re so clueless, and they belonged to Cinna, and he was on my side, right?”

“Time and tragedy have forced her through grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows mother can hear only so much.”