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"I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away."
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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."
Survival

"Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner."
Survival

"She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead."
Loss

"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."
Emotion

"Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese."
Humor

"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."
Unity

"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."
Support

"It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman."
Identity

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

"I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me."
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"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."
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"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."
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"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"
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"I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away."
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Personal Development

"It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl."
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Personal Development

"I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my world, over time, ittle by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I'm a weak person, that I bruise easily, don't you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It's like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere."
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"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."
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"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."
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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."
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