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“We had to save you because you’re the mockingjay, Katniss,” says Plutarch. “While you live, the revolution lives.”

"Enemy. Enemy. The word is tugging at a recent memory. Pulling it into the present. The look on Haymitch’s face. “Katniss, when you’re in the arena . . .” The scowl, the misgiving. “What?” I hear my own voice tighten as I bristle at some unspoken accusation . “You just remember who the enemy is,” Haymitch says. “That’s all.”

"If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me . . . but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?"

"To break through the smug veneer of those who use their brains to find amusing ways to kill us. To make them realize that while we’re vulnerable to the Capitol’s cruelties, they are as well."

"We are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion." It's actually sickening how opressors resemble each other all around the world, whether they're real and fictional, they share the same cruelty and injustice and the exact same sick and twisted and psychologically horrifying games that they play on the weak.

"I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance?"

"The square’s packed with screaming people, their faces hidden with rags and homemade masks, throwing bricks. Buildings burn. Peacekeepers shoot into the crowd. I’ve never seen anything like it, but I can only be witnessing one thing. This is what President Snow calls an uprising."

" Like our home, this is a place that he has no right, but ultimately every right, to occupy. "