# Quote — Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

> I enter a nightmare from which I wake repeatedly only to find a greater terror awaiting me. All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can’t help but believe they're real. Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't. It's only the beginning of a new chapter of torture. How many ways do I watch Prim die? Relive my father's last moments? Feel my own body ripped apart? This is the nature of the tracker jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.

- Author: [Suzanne Collins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins.md)
- Book: [The Hunger Games](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games.md)
- Page: 194
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/i-enter-a-nightmare

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> "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.".
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> "Without success," I add.
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> "Without success."

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> "And may the odds—" He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me.
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> I catch it in my mouth and break the delicate skin with my teeth. The sweet tartness explodes across my tongue. "—be ever in your favor!"

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> "Come on," says Cato. He thrusts a spear into the hands of the boy from District 3, and they head off in the direction of the fire. The last thing I hear as they enter the woods is Cato saying, "When we find her, I kill her in my own way, and no one interferes."
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> Somehow I don't think he's talking about Rue. She didn't drop a nest of tracker jackers on him.

p. 217 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suzanne-collins/the-hunger-games/come-on-says.md)