they mean something
First I get a glimpse of the blond braid down her back. Then, as she yanks off her coat to cover a wailing child, I notice the duck tail formed by her untucked shirt. I have the same reaction I did the day Effie Trinket called her name at the reaping. At least, I must go limp, because I find myself at the base of the flagpole, unable to account for the last few seconds. Then I am pushing through the crowd, just as I did before. Trying to shout her name above the roar. I’m almost there, almost to the barricade, when I think she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name.
And that’s when the rest of the parachutes go off.
I. Am. The. Mockingjay.
The symbol of the rebellion.
if you end all of this, all those deaths, they mean something.
Our lives were never ours.
My dear Ms. Everdeen. Make no mistake. The Game is coming to it’s end.
Our lives were never ours. They belong to Snow, and our deaths do too. But if you kill him Katniss, if you end all of this, all those deaths… they mean something.
Make no mistake. The game is coming to its end.
I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don’t own me.
You know, if I’m gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Heaven we hope is just up the road,
Mockingjay Part 2 + The Capitol
They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.
Repeat to yourself “I won’t leave you, I won’t leave you” until you fall asleep and dream of the place where nothing is red.