How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Hunger Games.
Quote #4
GALE: We could do it, you know. Take off, live in the woods. Well, we do anyway.
KATNISS: They'd catch us.
GALE: Well, maybe not.
KATNISS: Cut out our tongues... or worse. We wouldn't make it five miles.
Violence clearly isn't limited to the Games. The Capitol aims to destroy anyone who tries to oppose it.
Quote #5
PEETA: I just don't want them to change me.
KATNISS: How would they change you?
PEETA: I don't know. They'd turn me into something I'm not. I just don't want to be another piece in their game, you know?
KATNISS: You mean you won't kill anyone?
PEETA: No. I mean, I'm sure I would, just like anybody else when the time came, but I just keep wishing that I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I want to still be me. Does that make any sense?
KATNISS: Yeah. I just can't afford to think like that. I have my sister.
Both of these crazy kids understand that something happens when you kill someone else: you lose something that you can never get back. Their problem is that the Capitol is making them do it, and they need to figure out how to hold onto themselves in the process. Ask any war veteran about this.
Quote #6
SNOW: Seneca, why do you think we have a winner?
SENECA: What do you mean?
SNOW: I mean, why do we have a winner? I mean, if we just wanted to intimidate the Districts, why not round up twenty-four of them at random and execute them all at once? Be a lot faster.
What's mot chilling about this exchange is the cold-blooded, emotionless way Snow says this. You just know he's thought a lot about the best ways to intimidate the Districts. We've got a sneaking suspicion that executions have been in his bag of tricks all along.