Quotes About Strategy

When we're called to eat, Haymitch pounces on me immediately. "So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality." "They saw her shoot," says Peeta with a smile.

Pensando como tu presa...es donde encontrarás sus vulnerabilidades

Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. Like your electricity trap in the arena? I ask. Exactly. And see how well that worked out? says Beetee. Well...not really, I think.

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

She have another fellow?" asks Caesar. I don't know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta. So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can't turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly. I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in my case," says Peeta. Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.

That he knows the audience will be wondering why he hasn't used the most persuasive argument in his arsenal. That sponsors must be manipulated.

It was all for the games

Wars are won with heads, not hearts.

See, this is why no one lets you make the plans,

it's great to have allies as long as you can ignore the thought that you'll have to kill them.

Another force to contend with. Another power player who has decided to use me as a piece in her games,

Happy Hunger Games!" He plucks a few blackberries from the bushes around us. "And may the odds —" He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me.

the disruption of the broadcast. Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. "Like your electricity trap in the arena?" I ask. "Exactly. And see how well that worked out?" says Beetee. Well . . . not

I heard Coin say, "I told you we should have rescued the boy first." Meaning Peeta. I couldn't agree more. He would've been an excellent mouthpiece.

It's just that I didn't understand when I met you. After your first Games, I thought the whole romance was an act on your part. We all expected you'd continue that strategy. But it wasn't until Peeta hit the force field and nearly died that I —" Finnick hesitates.

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It's better for him than Johanna. They'll figure out he doesn't know anything pretty fast. And they won't kill him if they think they can use him against you,

Each hour begins a new horror, a new Gamemaker weapon, and ends the previous.

But there are much worse games to play.

I think it was clear to all of us what your plan was. To sacrifice yourself in the arena so that Katniss Everdeen and your child could survive.

But other people had plans as well.

Las guerras se ganan con la cabeza, no con el corazón.

Cinna, it seems, has thought of everything.

Maybe we'll both be allowed to live — if I play it right — to watch the Games go on. . . .