burdock constantly visiting haymitch after the games with asterid, trying to help him. asterid giving him meds that ultimately make things worse. the couple trying over and over again to help haymitch only to be rebuffed at every opportunity.

versus Peeta watching Katniss in Mockingjay

Obviously she loves Peeta, but even if you remove both him and Gale entirely, it still is one!

Everything she does, she does out of love. Volunteering for Prim, staying strong for her and their mother when she says her goodbyes. Even before, braving the woods to keep her family fed. She loves her father deeply, and honours him with every shot of her bow, with every memory she has of him.

She loves Rue, and that's what moves people in the districts! That's how she gets to them. Because despite coming from the poorest district, going to the Hunger Games where only one person comes out, she shares her food with her, her sleeping bag. She comforts her when she dies and sings to her until her canon fires.

That's love!

The whole revolution only happens because Katniss is driven by love. That's the whole point.

“Oh, okay then. So we’re on our way to bomb the Capitol?”

“Uh…no”

“We’re on our way to pick up more bombs then bombing the Capitol?”

“Katniss, no.”

That plays a far bigger part in her wanting to spend her life with him than his undying love for her. It's not like how Gale imagined it or some readers interpret it to be, that Katniss loves Peeta because of how much he loves her and is devoted to her.

For a long time, Peeta's undying love for her only made her feel guilty because she thought she couldn't give him what he wanted, which we know is completely false, but she got it in her head.

She assumed Peeta wanted children and never bothered to ask. She assumed Peeta wanted her undying love as well and thought she didn't harbor that feeling for him. Both were wrong, but the point is that Peeta "simping" for her did nothing for him to win her over.

She wants to be with Peeta because they always get along from the moment they're put together. They enjoy each other's company and have intellectual and deep conversations. They didn't even realize how soul-searching it was when they talked about wanting to die as their true selves on the roof before the first game. But they've been like that from day one.

Katniss had been spending a lot more time with Gale by that point, but they had never talked about something that deep. That's part of the reason their relationship starts falling apart the moment they need to align their morals. They never talked about it, period.

"Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love."

he actually most likely just read Fahrenheit 451 and animal farm

cause he has a library

“What I need isn’t Gale’s fire (hot, burning, wild and dangerous) kindled with rage and hatred (he is dividing. He hates the oppressor more than he loves the oppressed). I have plenty of fire myself (I know I have the capabilities to go there. To fall into those ideas and those actions). What I need is the dandelion in the spring (hope, newness, life). The bright yellow (warmth, the bright yellow is the sun. A different type of fire, a nurturing one. A healing one) that mean rebirth (spring, hope, life) not destruction (fire, burning, death)”