💬 Quotes

"Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol that they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games."

"Fear does not work as long as you keep your wits about you."

"Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time."

"I’m a soldier. I’m a prodigy. I’m a legend. I’m everything the Republic wants me to be."

"It’s funny how you can live your life thinking you’re on the right path, only to find out you’ve been walking in the wrong direction the whole time."

"You are worth more than your country. You are worth more than your government. You are worth more than any medal they could ever pin on your chest."

"The Republic is a great machine, and a machine is only as good as the people who run it. If it’s broken, you don’t throw it away—you fix it."

"I will find you. And when I do, I will save you."

"There’s no such thing as good or evil. There’s only power, and those too weak to seek it."

"I don't want to be human. Humans are messy. They have complicated emotions and they're always doing things for reasons that don't make sense."

"To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed."

"Sometimes you have to step forward into the darkness to make sure that the light on the other side of it is bright enough to lead you home."

"The memory of a person is like a ghost; it haunts you until you find a way to lay it to rest."

"Avery Grambs: 'I don’t want your money.' Tobias Hawthorne: 'And that, Avery, is exactly why you’re getting it.'"

"Everything in this house is a riddle. Everything in this family is a game. And you—you’re the piece that doesn't fit."

"Finders keepers, losers weepers. That was the Hawthorne way. It was a game of strategy, of chess played with people instead of pawns."

"Money isn't just money. It’s power. It’s protection. It’s a way to keep the people you love safe—or a way to ensure they never get too close."

"I’m not a pawn in your game, Tobias. I’m the player."

"He didn't just leave me the money. He left me the puzzle. And he expected me to solve it."

"I’m not saying I’m going to kill you. I’m saying that if you force me to kill you, I’m going to be very annoyed about the paperwork."