Mockingjay Chapter 11 Quotes
Mockingjay Chapter 11 Quotes
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Quote 1
"[…] I knew I'd misjudged you. That you do love him. I'm not saying in what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.
Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And in doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me. (11.19-20)
Finnick helps Katniss realize a wonderful and terrible truth: that she loves Peeta, somehow. But her love for him is also what's put him in terrible danger. True, it might be keeping him alive, but at what cost? Something that should be private and emotional has become a public weapon.
Quote 2
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no, nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death. (11.62)
Katniss feels like she can't go on, not because of what it means she has to give up, but because of what Peeta would have to sacrifice. It would be easier to undergo punishment and torture if it were inflicted on just her directly. But for that torture to be inflicted on someone else is more than she can bear, and we get that. It becomes a kind of mental torture, where all she can do is imagine the terrible things that are happening to Peeta. She doesn't want to sacrifice him.