#*tbosas

the ballad of songbirds and snakes + filming locations (image credits)

"Whoever she was, she was dressed for a performance all along. She had a fine voice, bright and clear on the high notes, husky and rich on the low, and she moved with assurance."

"We wanted to create a different kind of character in terms of powerful women in these stories. A very strong believer in a specific philosophy and is grooming Snow in that direction. She finds strange joy and creativity in her job as a gamemaker. She's a creative person with a very sinister underpinning, so there's a lot of color in her wardrobe and in her hair, even her eyes, and also in her creation… She's truly the first real gamemaker to think outside the box" (Francis Lawrence for MovieWeb).

"Her hand found his, intertwining their fingers and sending a buzz through his body at their closeness. At this small intimacy in the dark. He gave her hand a final squeeze and released it as they headed into the sunlight at the end of the passageway, where such a display would have been inexplicable."

"Imagine how terrified she must be, Coryo. How alone she must feel. If it was me, anything you could do to make me feel like you cared about me would go a long way. No, more than that. Like I was of value. Take her something, even a token, that lets her know you value her."

"Hosted by the clownish Capitol TV weatherman, Lucretius 'Lucky' Flickerman, it seemed both glaringly inappropriate and surprisingly welcome on the heels of all the killing."

"Dean Casca Highbottom, the man credited with the creation of the Hunger Games, was overseeing the mentor program personally. He presented himself to the students with all the verve of a sleepwalker, dreamy-eyed and, as usual, doped up on morphling."