The Hunger Games Friendship Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Hunger Games.

Quote #4

GALE: Listen to me. You're stronger than they are. You are. Get to a bow.

KATNISS: They may not have a bow.

GALE: They will if you show them how good you are. They just want a good show. That's all they want. If they don't have a bow, then you make one, okay? You know how to hunt.

KATNISS: Animals.

GALE: It's no different, Katniss.

KATNISS: There's 24 of us, Gale. Only one comes out.

GALE: Yeah, and it's gonna be you.

Gale comes through again: making sure Katniss knows that she really has a shot at this. It gives her hope at a moment when she really needs it.

Quote #5

KATNISS: He made me look weak.

HAYMITCH: He made you look desirable, which, in your case, can't hurt, sweetheart.

As Katniss says, she isn't good at making friends, which might explain why she goes all Sean Penn on Peeta instead of realizing that he just gave her a big head start.

Quote #6

HAYMITCH: He says he wants to be trained on his own from now on.

KATNISS: What?

HAYMITCH: This kind of thing does happen at this point. There's only one winner, right?

Is Peeta bailing on his friendship with Katniss? Maybe it's just unbearable to him to think that they're supposed to try to kill each other.