#hunger

I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #katniss

And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #love

Firecracker Gale and dandelion Peeta are so different from each other that it's easy to imagine that a girl who would choose Gale is a completely different person than one who would choose Peeta. When people sit around debating who Katniss should choose, maybe what they're really debating actually is her identity - and the romance is just a proxy for that big, hard question about the ever-changing, unaware girl on fire. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#change

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#change #compassion #conscience #conviction #guilt

Stay with me. Always. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #mockingjay #peeta #romance #katniss

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#camera #comes #end #film #get

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#basic #dual #full #given #health

I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve. ↗

— Ben Linder

#becomes #care #deserve #enough #feel

Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with Peeta before I remember that I'm having nothing more to do with him. I'm surprised to see the hardness in his eyes. He generally seems so mild. '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.' Haymitch considers this a moment, then punches Peeta in the jaw, knocking him from his chair. When he turns back to reach for the spirits, I drive my knife into the table between his hand and the bottle, barely missing his fingers. I brace myself to deflect his hit, but it doesn't come. Instead, he sits back and squints at us. 'Well, what's this?' says Haymitch. 'Did I actually get a pair of fighters this year? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #the-hunger-games #funny

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#good #honor #hunger #satisfy #success