The hunger games quotes katniss and gale

Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use. This is one of his death traps. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale. I don't know how to respond. This idea is so preposterous. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did.

I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips. But my best friend predicts I will choose the person "I can't survive without. I'll just conduct an unfeeling assessment of what my potential mates can offer me. As if in the end, it will be the question of whether a baker or a hunter will extend my longevity the most. It's a horrible thing for Gale to say, for Peeta not to refute. Especially when every emotion I have has been taken or exploited by the Capitol or the rebels.

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them. Perhaps a little less green than usual, but the blackberry bushes hang heavy with fruit. Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags.

Based on Suzanne Collins's popular book trilogy, the four movie adaptations were received well by readers and critics, as well as its large new audience. At the heart of the story is its fierce protagonist, Katniss Everdeen.

Katniss is a very reluctant leader who later becomes a catalyst and a symbol around whom the people rally. Molding a generation and sparking a new wave of powerful YA heroines, Katniss is truly a hero that audiences can connect with.

With her fiery personality and sharp tongue, she delivers some memorable and inspirational lines. In fact, the franchise is only expanding, with a followup movie adaptation based around Suzanne Collins' prequel novel, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", which was published in and focuses on the history of the Games and President Snow's rise to power.

In the meantime, here's another look at what makes The Hunger Games such a popular story, with five additional quotes from Katniss Everdeen herself. These inspirational lines show just why the character became such a world-famous icon and will get any fan of the series pumped up once again. One of the most memorable moments of the entire series is when Katniss volunteers in her sister's place. It's what sparks the sequence of events that leads to a nationwide uprising, and it's the relationship between Katniss and Prim that gives the story so much heart.

Prim keeps Katniss grounded, inspires her, and gives her hope. But when Katniss volunteers, it gives other people hope: that goodness still exists, and that love is the most important thing in this bleak world - so important that it can save them. Her baby daughter wakes from a nightmare, and Katniss is quick to comfort her, though viewers get the feeling she's mostly talking to herself and the audience.

Someday I'll explain it to you - why they came, why they won't ever go away. But I'll tell you how I survive it. I make a list in my head of all the good things I've seen someone do Years after the uprising, Katniss still has nightmares, but she's finally at a point where she's found a way to deal with them.

This in itself is inspiring, as is her message of hope to her daughter. When she says, "there are much worse games to play," it reminds viewers that kindness triumphs violence.

This is why she chooses Peeta, and why they're so compatible. Katniss is restless for much of Mockingjay, being locked up underground in District One of the few positive things to come out of her time there is her renewed ambition to join the rebellion. She befriends Johanna after she's rescued from the Capitol, and the two find that they agree on a lot of the same things. Katniss tells her that she's going to kill Snow. He needs to see my eyes when I kill him.

After getting out of the Games, Katniss feels alienated from Gale. He doesn't completely understand her experience or why it has changed her views so much, particularly when it comes to war and rebellion.

Gale and Katniss sometimes refer to a rule book of violence and morals, but Gale insists that Snow threw it away long ago. Still, Katniss tries to maintain her sense of righteousness and mercy.

Was it because she was so old that her days were numbered, anyway? Never speak of them. Pretend they were nothing but a bad dream. But the Victory Tour makes that impossible. And this year, I am one of the stars of the show. I will have to travel from district to district, to stand before the cheering crowds who secretly loathe me, to look down into the faces of the families whose children I have killed.

Used without consent, without knowledge. At least in the Hunger Games, I knew I was being played with. And if a girl from District Twelve of all places can defy the Capitol and walk away unharmed, what is to stop them from doing the same?

I must now become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution. Mockingjay book. Octavia secures my Mockingjay pin over my heart and we step back to look in the mirror.

They knew what they were doing. They followed you because they believed you really could kill Snow. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses.

That it can be good again. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

The Hunger Games book. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods.