It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his hands. "Don't let him take you from me."
Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. "No. I don't want to . . . "
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay (2010)
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favorite hunger games passages [82/82] 💛
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snow instructing lucy gray to head underground in search of safety in the 10th games & later on katniss & her unit heading into the tunnels below the capitol to get through undetected like... yeah babe your own advice was used against you!
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"You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground. But do you see that? Fire is catching... And if we burn... you burn with us!"
- Katniss Everdeen
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my absolute favorite part of the Hunger Games (specifically Mockingjay Part 1) is when This interaction happens
“And what if you’re killed?”
“Make sure to get it on camera.”
Absolute girlboss move of Katniss. It’s amazing. No clue why I like it so much but I do.
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Katniss delivers a lot of powerful speeches throughout the series, but one of my favourites is the speech she gives in District 2 right after the Nut is taken.
"Give me one reason I shouldn't shoot you?"
"I can't. I can't. That's the problem, isn't it? We blew up your mine. You burned my district to the ground. We've got every reason to kill each other. So do it. Make the Capitol happy. I'm done killing their slaves for them."
"I'm not their slave."
"I am. That's why I killed Cato... and he killed Thresh... and he killed Clove... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games.
"When I saw that mountain fall tonight, I thought... they've done it again. Got me to kill you - the people in the districts. But why did I do it? District Twelve and District Two have no fight except for the one the Capitol gave us. And why are you fighting with the rebels on the rooftops? With Lyme, who was your victor? With people who were your neighbours, maybe even your family?"
"I don't know,"
"And you up there? I come from a mining town. Since when do miners condemn other miners to that kind of death, and then stand by to kill whoever manages to crawl from the rubble?"
"These people are not your enemy! The rebels are not your enemy! We all have one enemy, and it's the Capitol! This is our chance to put an end to their power, but we need every district person to do it! Please! Join us!"
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Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me. And eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. 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. And only Peeta can give me that.
So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
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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.
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015) dir. Francis Lawrence.
7.4/10
I would not recommend this movie to my friends.
I would not rewatch this movie.
Every kiss between Gale and Katniss is so forced.
What even is that black ooze?
These booby traps are so high tech crazy.
Finnick, nooo.
Primrose, noo.
This movie was way better than part one.
Katniss, leave the cat alone!
Katniss's baby looking real Asian.
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Sam during the Mockingjay premiere in Madrid (Nov 2014)
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