“My Katarina is dead.”
“I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back." "You ran away, Katarina." "And now I'm back." "You're still running.”
“People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead—because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead.”
“My name is Katniss Everdeen.Why am I not dead?I should be dead.”
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”