the hunger games;

The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Gary Ross

Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

If desperate times call for desperate measures, then I’m free to act as desperately as I wish.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

“Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me. And eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. 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. So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?” I tell him, “Real.”

Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013)

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE 2013 | dir. by Francis Lawrence

and what exactly were you trying to accomplish? haymitch asks in a very measured voice. i’m not sure, says peeta.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), dir. Francis Lawrence

My brother knows these tunnels really well. He worked sanitation down here, right after they made him an Avox. Took us five years to buy his way outta here. He didn’t see the sun once.

THE HUNGER GAMES (2012, dir. gary ross)

The Hunger Games (2012), dir. Gary Ross

“Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me. And eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. 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. So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?” I tell him, “Real.”

THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) dir. Gary Ross

And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don’t want him to die. And it’s not about the sponsors. And it’s not about what will happen when we get home. And it’s not just that I don’t want to be alone. It’s him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

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The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest, down through my body, out along my arms and legs, to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.