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“Ok aspiring fiction writers, if you’ve ever wondered how to write a successful novel, the secret is here: kill off your characters. Of the handful of books that won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2011, all 13 novels had the common theme of putting to death main characters…” Read more…
It was a shock to everybody—all that beauty and personality on the outside, and all that cold nothing on the inside.
— Kurt Vonnegut While Mortals Sleep “Jenny”
Posted April 25, 2012 at 12:00pm
- Katniss: Peeta. You said at the interview you'd had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?
- Peeta: Oh, let's see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red plaid dress and your hair...it was in two braids instead of one. My father pointed you out when we were waiting to line up.
- Katniss: Your father?
- Peeta: He said, 'See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner.'
- Katniss: What? You're making that up!
- Peeta: No, true story. And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.'
- Katniss: That's true. They do. I mean, they did.
- Peeta: So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent.
- Katniss: Oh, please.
- Peeta: No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.
