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Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

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Suzanne Collins
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 10
Executive Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Hartford
Connecticut
Suzanne Marie Collins
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But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.
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I thought he wanted it, anyway, I say. Not like this, Haymitch says. He wanted it to be real.
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I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.
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I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me, why I belong to them.
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Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying
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It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.
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And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day, she said. Do you see?
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Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!
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Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.
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Tuck in your tail, little duck.
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Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. “For you.” I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.
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The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.
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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.
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I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?
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A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.
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So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in 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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And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.
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