Katniss Everdeen

Character in Catching Fire From: Catching Fire

Protagonist and narrator; reluctant symbol of rebellion

293 quotes

"I am not a pawn in their game"
Freedom
"I carry their hope with me now"
Hope
"This is my life now. This is what I am"
"They broke their own rules to bring us back"
"I am done playing the games they want me to play"
Freedom
"Our lives have been leading to this moment"
"Nothing in the Capitol is real"
Truth
"I won't be a piece of their propaganda"
"District 12 is burning because of me"
"Alliances are survival. Trust is luxury"
"I want to go home. I want my life back"
"We are not what they made us to be"
"I've become something I never wanted to be"
"The Gamemakers have already decided our fate"
"I am the mockingjay whether I want to be or not"
"I keep thinking about the last thing Cinna said to me. 'Let them look at you.' But I don't want them to look at me. I want to pull off my face."
Fear
"My tongue slides across the roof of my mouth, feeling the small cuts from the hard kernels of popcorn. For some reason, this makes me want to cry."
"I'm not very good at making friends. I'm not good at being a girl. I'm not good at a lot of things."
"The Capitol isn't a place I can hope to understand."
Wisdom
"What I did in the Games was horrible. It's not something to be proud of."
"But I'm thinking about my family. My mother. My sister. The people I love."
Love
"There's no one I trust completely. Not even Haymitch."
"It's funny how your brain can take a memory and just... change it."
"I became someone I'm not when I'm in the Games."
"Every night, I go to sleep in my house. Every morning, I wake up to find new threats written on the walls."
Fear
"I volunteer as tribute."
Courage
"The thing is, I'm not sure I can survive alone anymore."
Strength
"Peeta was right. I've always been a bad liar."
Truth
"Whatever was between us in the arena, whatever I felt, it wasn't real."
Relationships
"I'm not sure what the future holds, but I know I'll face it with you by my side"
Hope