Цитаты из книги «Голодные игры / The Hunger Games»

No one in the Seam would turn up their nose at a good leg of wild dog, but the Peacekeepers who come to the Hob can afford to be a little choosier.

“Fine!” I snarl. Haymitch takes the role of the interviewer and I try to answer his questions in a winning fashion. But I can’t. I’m too angry with Haymitch for what he said and that I even have to answer the questions. All I can think is how unjust the whole thing is, the Hunger Games. Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate? The longer the interview goes on, the more my fury seems to rise to the surface, until I’m literally spitting out answers at him.

But judging by the state he’s in, Haymitch will have no memory of this tomorrow

but the opportunity never seemed to present itself

Because if it had become known that my mother could no longer care for us, the district would have taken us away from her and placed us in the community home

Prim might begin to repeat my words and then where would we be?

But the idea that someone might be arming the Seam would never have been allowed

My father could have made good money selling them, but if the officials found out he would have been publicly executed for inciting a rebellion

I prop myself up on one elbow.

It’s not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable