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Suzanne Collins
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 10
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Hartford
Connecticut
Suzanne Marie Collins
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I'm not good at talking about myself.
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But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.
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Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed, he says. Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.
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Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.
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Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
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But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. Katniss, there is no District Twelve.
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I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving.
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Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. - Katniss -
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He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid warrior, wasn't he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. Attack! Attack! he yelled.
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Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.
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Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.
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He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his.
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I'm going to be the Mockingjay.
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Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
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Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.
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Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.
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I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?
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hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home, I say. Katniss, I live three houses away from you, he says.
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