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"The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young."

"How are you managing? And don't say you're fine."It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am."

"And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen."

"What have the nibblers ever done for you?"The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a clear shot of her eyes. They were asking for an answer. Needing to know if she could count on him."They saved your life," he said.And for just a moment, Luxa's face softened and she smiled."

"You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?""We have a very big bathtub."

"I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me."
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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."

"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."

"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."

"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."

"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
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