"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."

Trauma, Killing, Memory, Guilt, Consequence

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"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."

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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"

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"Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them."

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"Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people"."

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"They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked."

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"But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it."

Love

"I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else."

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"I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me."

Emotion

"I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to, to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games."

Motivation

"If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up."

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