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“But I can’t say I have no future, because I know that every year for my birthday, I will get a new pair of tributes, one girl and one boy, to mentor to their deaths. Another sunrise on the reaping.”

“Because I don’t think either of us can live without the other.”

“Ma and Sid are being burned alive.”

“No humiliation is beneath me. I will bear anything to keep my loved ones alive.”

“Being poisoned no longer worries me. If the president wanted me dead, why has he gone to so much trouble to keep me alive? He has big plans for me.”

“Newcomers land on top.”

“…the last trio of human heartbeats in the arena.”
“You know what would make it even better? I drop a handful of chocolate balls into the night. A startled sound. The soba soften to sniffles. A candy wrapper crackles. Quiet. Not a bad poster, all in all.”

“Good-bye, Maysilee Donner, who I loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. Not as a sweetheart or even a friend. A sister, I’d say.”

“No one ever loved me more. I always hoped I’d look like her one day. Never going to see myself grow old, I guess.”

“I keep wondering, will Merrilee still ve a twin, after I’m gone?”