Quotes About Survival

I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and water. They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District Twelve. You're my whole life," he says. "I would never be happy again." I

Katniss, the girl who was on fire.

Tigris had said to trust her, and he did. Only his cousin's cleverness with a needle had saved him so far. Still,

Watching the bright pages of his picture books — the very ones he'd pored over with his mother — reduced to ashes had never failed to bring him to tears. But better off sad than dead.

They might. But you're playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities,

I'll tell them how I survive it.

The Capitol has no end of creative ways to kill people. I imagine these things and I'm terrified, but let's face it: They've been lurking in the back of my brain, anyway. I've been a tribute in the Games. Been threatened by the president. Taken a lash across my face. I'm already a target.

Katniss, the girl on fire, has left behind her flickering flames and bejeweled gowns and soft candlelight frocks. She is as deadly as fire itself.

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive," says Peeta.

The arena messed us all up pretty good, don't you think? Or do you still feel like the girl who volunteered for your sister?

But better of sad then dead.

A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That's mankind in its natural state.

I am going back into the arena.

No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the disctricts. And you...in Thirteen...Dead by morning!

And then it hits me. They already have. They have kiled her father in those wretched mines. They have sat by as she almost starved to death. They have chosen her as a tribute, then made her watch her sister fight to the death in the Games. She has been hurt far worse than I had at the age of twelve. And even that pales in comparison with Rue's life.

Things pick up for me once they've announced two tributes from the same district can live and I shout out Peeta's name and then clap my hands over my mouth.

We both know they have to have a victor. It can only be one of us. Please, take it. For me.

I'm being erased, he thought. And to erase me, they must erase the Games.

En el setenta y cinco aniversario, como recordatorio a los rebeldes de que ni siquiera sus miembros más fuertes son rivales para el poder del Capitolio, los tributos elegidos saldrán del grupo de los vencedores.

President Snow used to . . . sell me . . . my body, that is," Finnick begins in a flat, removed tone. "I wasn't the only one. If a victor is considered desirable, the president gives them as a reward or allows people to buy them for an exorbitant amount of money. If you refuse, he kills someone you love. So you do it.

These arrows are food, safety, and life itself now.

Let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. A cold breeze has sprung

But there are much worse games to play ~Katniss Everdeen