The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games)

but she had a sweetness, a vulnerability that invited abuse.

He would get a prize; he would have to! And have a brilliant university career.

It was pathetic, but he needed every drop of approval he could get

You forget. I’m part of that litter,”

It would be kinder to toss her out the window of the penthouse. At least that would be quick.

his brain and would likely be his undoing if he couldn’t learn to outsmart it.

A tendency toward obsession was hardwired into

What a luxury it would be to toss it in the trash without a second thought. What a luxury trash would be.

But better off sad than dead.

— John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1689