The Hunger Games

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“In the arena, you only get one wish. And it’s very costly. It costs your life. ”

“Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are. ”

Only one figure stays huddled against the wall. “Peeta,” I say. There’s no response. Has he blacked out? I crouch in front of him, pulling his cuffed hands from his face. “Peeta?” His eyes are like black pools, the pupils dilated so that the blue irises have all but vanished. The muscles in his wrists are hard as metal. 

“Leave me,” he whispers. “I can’t hang on.” 

“Yes. You can!” I tell him. 

Peeta shakes his head. “I’m losing it. I’ll go mad. Like them.” 

Like the mutts. Like a rabid beast bent on ripping my throat out. And here, finally here in this place, in these circumstances, I will really have to kill him. And Snow will win. Hot, bitter hatred courses through me. Snow has won too much already today.

Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson as

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark

in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

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