Katniss Quotes
Katniss Quote of the day
To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games.
But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve."
Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.
Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.
Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.
Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.
Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.
Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
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 side step that?
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.
Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?
Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you." "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. "Whatever it takes to break you.
No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.
You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.
We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.
Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.
