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Peeta’s beside me, dressed in an outfit identical to mine. “What did Finnick Odair want?” he asks. 

I turn and put my lips close to Peeta’s and drop my eyelids in imitation of Finnick. “He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice.

-Catching Fire p.211

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed. And more than once, I have turned in the school hallway and caught his eyes trained on me, only to quickly flit away. I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I’d be feeling less conflicted now. I though about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we’re going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I suppose to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won’t seem sincere if I’m trying to slit his throat.

-The Hunger Games p.32

thewhitemumba asked: So well I was wondering if Katniss really loved PEETA. I mean it kind of appears to me she loved Gale but needed Peeta. So when Gale abandoned her, that's the reason she turned to PEETA, eh? What do you think?

I think Katniss was very reluctant of Peeta at first because it was the Capitol that was forcing her to ‘love’ him, she didn’t want to be part of any plans of the Capitol. Falling in love with him was never part of the plan either, she did care for him, but she didn’t love him. Gale had been her constant before the games, Gale was also exactly like her. He was poor, his father was gone, and he was pretty much the food bring-er for the family. Katniss didn’t have to be intimidated by him because there was nothing she needed to prove with him, they were equals.

But Peeta is different, Peeta had money, both parents, and always had food on the table. I think Katniss believed that Peeta thought he was better than everyone but she realized that he was a humble, caring, loveable guy. She also thought that his “crush on her” was a jeer at her, not that he actually liked her. 

I don’t think she meant to fall in love with Peeta but she did and she didn’t want to lose Gale because of that love.

But if Gale hadn’t have left, I doubt she would’ve been able to realize that she needs Peeta to balance out her rage.

“Yeah, but… I mean, for the Capitol, you’re pure,” he says, clearly trying to mollify me. “For me, you’re perfect. They’re just teasing you.”

“No, they’re laughing at me, and so are you!” I say.

“No.” Peeta shakes his head, but he’s still suppressing a smile. I’m seriously rethinking the question of who should get out of these Games alive when the other elevator opens.

-Catching Fire p.216

The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate that it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?

-Catching Fire p.117

“Once you’re in the arena, the rest of the world becomes very distant,” he continues  All the people and things you loved or cared about almost cease to exist.The pink sky and the monsters in the jungle and the tributes who want your blood become your final reality, the only one that ever mattered. As bad as it makes you feel, you’re going to have to do some killing, because in the arena, you only get one wish. And it’s very costly.”

“It costs your life,” says Caesar.

“Oh,no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?” says Peeta. “It costs everything you are.”

-Mockingjay p.22-23