"For a while, I stand staring out the train window." "I imagine my home, with its shutters drawn tight. What are they doing now, my mother and Prim?" -Page 53
"What are they doing now, my mother and Prim?"
"Gray light is leaking through the curtains when the rapping rouses me. I hear Effie Trinket's voice, calling me to rise. I try and imagine for a moment, what it must be like inside that woman's head." -Page 54
Effie: "Up, Up, Up! It's going to be big, big, big day!"
"Sit down! Sit down!" says Haymitch, waving me over. The moment I slide into my chair I'm served an enormous platter of food."-Page 55
"Sit down! Sit down!"
"So you're supposed to give us advice, I say to Haymitch" "Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with Peeta before I remember I'm having nothing more to do with him. "That's very funny," says Peeta, "Only not to us."-Page 56 & 57
So, you're supposed to give us advice?
Here's some advice. Stay alive.
That's very funny, 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."-Page 57