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“You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.”
Quelle: Mockingjay
“Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.”
Quelle: The Hunger Games
“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
Quelle: The Hunger Games
“If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.”
Quelle: The Hunger Games
“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”
Variante: Look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they really are.
Quelle: Mockingjay
“Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.”
Quelle: Mockingjay
“And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”
Quelle: Catching Fire
“I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.”
Quelle: The Hunger Games
“And if we burn, you burn with us.”
Variante: Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
Quelle: Mockingjay
“You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person”
Quelle: The Hunger Games
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
Quelle: The Hunger Games
“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
Katniss, pp. 31-32
Variante: Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Like me, for instance. Right now.
Quelle: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
“But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.”
Quelle: The Hunger Games
“You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?"
"All right," he whispers.”
Quelle: The Hunger Games
Katniss and Plutarch Heavensbee (p. 379)
Quelle: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Kontext: “Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?” I ask.
“Oh, not now. Now we’re in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated,” he says. “But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.”
“What?” I ask.
“The time it sticks. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution of the human race. Think about that.“
“The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.”
Quelle: Mockingjay
“No one knows what to do with you, girlie.”
Quelle: Mockingjay
Variante: It costs your life,” says Caesar.
“Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?” says Peeta. “It costs everything you are.
Quelle: Mockingjay
“Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”
Quelle: Mockingjay
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