- "Peeta rolls his eyes at Haymitch. "She has no idea. The effect she can have." He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me."
- "You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."
- "Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping." Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to. "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. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because... because... she came here with me.""
- "The star-crossed lovers of district twelve."
- "And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable."
- "Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
- "Can you speed it up a little?" he asks. "No. Shut up and eat your pears," I say.
- "Better than yesterday. This is an enormous improvement over the mud," he says. "Clean clothes and medicine and a sleeping bag . . . and you."
- "And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don’t want him to die. And it’s not about the sponsors. And it’s not about what will happen back home. And it’s not just that I don’t want to be alone. It’s him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread."
- ""I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention." "I am now," I say. "Well, I don’t have much competition here," he says. I swallow hard and get the words out. "You don’t have much competition anywhere." And this time, it’s me who leans in."
- "So now that you’ve got me, what are you going to do with me?" I turn in to him. "Put you somewhere you can’t get hurt." And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.
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