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

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

“I don’t know how,” he admitted.

Lucy Gray glanced around the room, taking in her wounded competitors. Then she looked him in the eye, and impatience tinged her voice. “You could start by thinking I can actually win.”

No matter — snow had been the ruination of them both.

“He’s dead,” said Snow.

“But she isn’t,” Dean Highbottom

Coriolanus suppressed a gag. “Hello, Dr. Gaul.”

“I love you deeply, but I love officers’ school more?

It seemed too bleak an existence to condemn a child to. Any child, let alone one of his own.

Coriolanus hoped this was the final Billy Taupe song. What else could be said, really?

An overwhelming flush of love ran through him at her reminder that he was not alone in this tragedy.

He found himself thinking of Lucy Gray, the one and now only love of his life.