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“the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love”

“‘I have nothing to live for.’ I say this without even a note of self-pity. I am simply stating a fact.
‘Then you have nothing to lose. That puts you in a position of power.’…
‘I’m nobody’s idea of a hero, Haymitch. But at least I’m still in the game.’”

“She can’t stand for anything to be confined. Especially wild things, which, of course, she is.”

“How do I know? I feel like I constantly demonstrate poor judgment. I don’t feel qualified to choose between fried or scrambled eggs.”
me as fuck

“We never really recover, just move on the best we can.”

“you never really know who’d swim in a flood”

“Instead of giving up, maybe I’ll see if I can’t be of some tiny use to someone else”

“Hoping for something better could be dangerous; it could blind me to the reality of my situation. I remember how Mamaw always said, “Where there’s life, there’s hope.” But from where I’m sitting, hope seems a lot like white liquor. It can fool you in the short run, but like as not, you’ll end up paying for it twice.”

“Distraught, but unbruised, unbeaten, unbroken, and safe at home”

“this poisonous beauty of an arena”