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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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"The boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong."
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"I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence."
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"Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace."
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"We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us."
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"There is a legend. And to protest is daft."
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"If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!"
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"Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around."
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"We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags."
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"Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record."
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"I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue."
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