💬 Quotes

"Every code can be broken. It is just a matter of time and processing power."

"The Games are not a sport; they are a mirror held up to a nation that has forgotten the cost of its own comfort."

"Victory in the arena is merely a temporary reprieve from the war we are all already fighting."

"Hope is a dangerous commodity in a district that has learned to survive by burying its ambitions."

"If you cannot change the rules of the game, you must learn to play them better than the people who wrote them."

"Every life harvested in this arena is a debt the Capitol thinks it has paid, but the ledger is only growing longer."

"Silence is the only language the Capitol fears, because it is the only one they cannot twist into a performance."

"That is the price you pay for being a foreigner, you watch the world go by from a window."

"For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy—a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts."

"He hates that his name is both absurd and obscure, that it has nothing to do with who he is, that it is neither Indian nor American but of all things nameless."

"Wear your sari, Gogol said, as if it were a costume she was wearing for his benefit, rather than the way she had lived for thirty years."

"He had spent his life trying to run away from his family, his heritage, his name; now, he realizes that he is inevitably tied to them by the very threads he tried to sever."

"The name, which once felt like a barrier, now seems like a bridge—a vessel that carries the weight of a life lived between two worlds."

"Sometimes you have to break your own heart to save your life."

"We all carry secrets, but some secrets have the weight to pull you under for good."

"You don't really know a person until you see who they become when they have everything to lose."

"Survival isn't about being the strongest; it’s about being the one who refuses to let go of the surface."

"Kindness from a stranger is often just a different form of manipulation."

"The past doesn't stay buried; it just waits for the tide to go out."

"I seem to be a man who is not a man, but the projection of a man who is not a man."