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The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

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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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We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving. And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.
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Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying
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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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Maybe I'll be like that man in The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.
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Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.
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Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch? I say. Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience, he says. Look at the courage Peeta just displayed! It's all I can do not to slap him.
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Doors are for those who lack enemies.
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If I'm going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I'll be able to wash all the damage done by the tears from my face. But no tears come. I'm too tired or too numb to cry. The only thing I feel is a desire to be somewhere else. So I let the train rock me into oblivion.
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A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.
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The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.
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Better not to give in to it.
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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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Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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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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What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
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I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
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Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.
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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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Want a sugar cube? he asks in his old seductive voice.
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