"And find me, they do. It's lucky I'm ready to move on because when I hear feet, I have less than a minute head start. The moment I awake, I'm up and running, splashing across the pool, flying into the bushes." - pg 180
"Where would I go anyway that is any safer than here? I lean back on my pack, overcome by drowsiness. If the Careers want me, let them find me." - pg 180
"So I do what I have done my whole life in such circumstances. I pick a high tree and begin to climb." - pg 181
"Now I smile. "How's everything going with you?" I call down cheerfully. This takes them aback, but I know the crowd will love it." - pg 181
"Well enough." Says the boy from district 2. "Yourself?" - pg 181
"It's been a bit warm for my taste," I say. "The airs a bit better up here. Why don't you come on up?" - pg 181
"Think I will." - pg 181
"Here, take this, Cato." - pg
"Oh, let her stay there. It's not like she's going anywhere. We'll deal with it in the morning." - pg 182
"The Careers regroup on the ground and I can hear them growling conspiratorially among themselves, foolish I have made them look foolish." - pg 182
"I scoot down to a fork in the tree and clumsiliy prepare for bed. Put on my jaxket. Lay out my sleeping bed." - pg 183
"The eys of some animal peer at me from the neighboring tree - a possum maybe - Suddenly, I'm up on one elbow. Those are no possum eyes. - pg 183
"For a while we hold each other's gaze. Then, without even rustling a leaf, her little hands slide into the open and points to something above my head. - pg 184
"Among the familiar evening sounds of the woods, my ears register a low hum. Then I know. It's a wasp nest. - pg 185