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

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

It never failed to calm him with the memory of how it had felt to be loved like that.

Without turning he knew it was the girl, his girl

Who were all these people hanging around on a weekday at the zoo? Didn’t they have jobs? Shouldn’t the children be in school? No wonder the country was such a mess.

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