Quotes About Survival

In his hands, I am again a mockingjay.

But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse , volunteers are all but extinct.

The real sports of the Hunger Games is watching the tributes kill one another

Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead. . . .

we both know the other's survival means our own death

at least he would ensure survival for survival's sake, giving them a chance to evolve. What else could humanity hope for? Really, it should thank him.

Why bother pinching pennies when the dollars had fled long ago?

How you've both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district." Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter.

motivated by his desire to keep her alive and his anger at the Gamemakers' negligence. An argument could be made for basic decency there.

We manage the darkness as we did in the arena, wrapped in each other's arms, guarding against dangers that can descend at any moment.

May the odds be ever in your Favour

Somehow I don't think he's talking about Rue. She didn't drop a nest of tracker jackers on him.

People in this arena weren't crowned for their compassion

We both know they have to have a victor. Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces.

Ashes billow up around me, and I pull the hem of my shirt up over my mouth. It's not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

I almost forgot! Happy Hunger Games!

there's only one future, if I want to keep those I love alive and stay alive myself. I'll have to marry Peeta.

If peeta and I were both die, or they thought we were…

Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

It made the difference between my life and death.

They, or should I say 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.

I like Hazelle. Respect her. The explosion that killed my father took out her husband as well, leaving her with three boys and a baby due any day.