"You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?""We have a very big bathtub."

"It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.""Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-"

"Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta."

"The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying."

"No. Now, shut up and eat your pears."

"I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite."

"Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared."

"It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman."

"I'm going to wake Peeta," I say."No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his."Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches frim his nose, and give him a shake. "Peeta. Peeta, wake up," I say in a soft, singsong voice.His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. "Aa!"Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off. Every time we try to stop, we look at Peeta's attempt to maintain a disdainful expression and it sets us off again."

"Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying."

"You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?"

"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."

"You could do a lot worse."

"Aim higher in case you fall short."

"Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."

"Knowing it and seeing it are two different things."

"Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life."

"Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?"

"Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die."

"An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are."

"Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."

"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."