“That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.”
“We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?”
“America was born out of despair & we'll all go through it in our lifetime. It's what we do with it that will help determine our greatness!”
“How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound,the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,dead gestures of dolls.”
“One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.”
“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”