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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
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Suzanne Marie Collins
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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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My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.
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I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.
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An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.
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Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice.
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Because...because...she came here with me.
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Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
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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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Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
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They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
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Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.
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Just remember, stealing's punishable by death
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As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.
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Just give him the medicine! I scream at her. Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!
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Just the perfect touch of rebellion, says Haymitch Very nice. Rebellion?
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Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.
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If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.
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I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to know about you, Katniss. But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to time in the past! I say.
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It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.
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aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?
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