“It's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.”

“Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.”

“Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.”

“My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.”

“So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home. ”

“what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.”

“That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.”