Reaping Acceptance Quotes

But as she stands on that platform she tries to place that trust in them, trust them to know how to survive an earthquake they've never seemed to escape. The wind blows, the cicadas screech, and she wonders if she's forgotten how.
~ Bette Subino, District One Female shrimp


"I volunteer!" I shout before I even realize what happened. The tiny boy looks at me, and I feel I stole something from him. It's almost as though he hates me for what I've done, but I don't care. It's the only way the girl I care for will realize I exist.
~ Yusei Rhee, District One male Cato


They’re mean on the best of days, and I don’t think I could stand to look at the malice in their eyes that says ”I hope it’s you, because what are you worth?” To them, the answer is nothing. They’ve embedded that in my chest somewhere, and I feel it twinge along with the fear. What if they’re right, and my name is called? Worse, somehow: what if they’re right, and I live like this forever?
~ Eve Renner, District Two female Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy]


Some people... I guess that's how they get them. Everyone in this district is an idiot.
~ Shy Aubergine, District Two male uwu


The briefest, smallest, smile curled the edges of my lips in gratitude for the one I was brought into this cruel Panem with. “Forever.” Agreed past my own tongue.
- Auto Grand Theft, District Three female Cameo {RIP Charlie}


All eyes angle towards me but Auto's are the only ones I'm looking at. At all costs, one of us is stealing the crown and title of Victor.
~ Larceny Theft, District Three male Arrows


Emotions were not things to be scared of. They were weapons.
~Anatalia Morrisen, District Four female ryan


It's not real danger, after all; even if the Quell twist this year turns out to be "cool kids with exactly three siblings who eat an unreasonable number of clams," there will be Careers chomping at the bit to take both slots.
~ Wander Sibley, District Four x WT


Head held high, she stands in front of the crowd as if they can’t see every one of her scars — bite marks on her knees and the edges of her palms, scratches of self-harm up her arms and down her neck, knife wounds on the walls of her dead brother’s bedroom, mirrored in the wreckage of her scowl.
~ Denali Lyons (tbh the whole post), District Five female L△LIA


Lately, things had been improving. Money was being saved, plans were forming, and real relationships were forging. There was hope for a future. Until now.
~Minx Ahlstrom, District Five male Python


We didn’t say goodbye. It was more of a slow and steady decline into separation that became - a nothingness that reverberated through us.
~ Quest Hertz, District Six female marguerite harvard d2a (zori)


Now Jacob is reliant on my doses, I am reliant on his money and Teddy…he is reliant on the Capitol licking his ass. Well it is going to be the last year where I must stare at his face on that stage. Three years of seeing that smug look and finally, my name won’t ever be in that bowl again. I can stick to my routine and forget him like he did us.
~Parson Cham, District Six male gamemaker ☢️ ivan korsch


Fate has a sense of humor, and next year there will be fireworks.
~ Lex Lionel, District Seven female gm bourgeois decadence [aya]


and suddenly, existence becomes a cage devoid of a key.
~ Angel de Costa, District Seven male gunner, d9 ₊⊹ 👹 ɢʀɪғғɪɴ.


I can't let her do it to Everly, I can't let someone so innocent suffer. This is the end of her reign of terror. I won't give her the satisfaction of ruining someone else.
~ Sable Delamore, District Eight female d1b. xylia fray ♕ kaяi


I may have been Oliver Wren, but I suppose I did mean a little harm to those I was about to meet. I just hated to admit it.
~ Oliver Wren, District Eight male kap


Fanfare went through like every year, until the escort stuck their grubby little fingers into the bowl. "FIONA."
~ Fiona Zachariah, District Nine female *


My first reaction is to laugh, a dry, humorless sound. Of course it's my fucking luck, right? I survived retired criminals for parents, a naive little brother, and a crime ridden district for eighteen years only to die just as freedom was just moments away. Seems typical, if you ask me.
~ Maxwell Temple, District Nine male lance


I'm not apart of a family anymore, I am a statistic. Well. This is certainly one way to go about dying.
~ Temple Jones, District Ten female sbeeg


Some sort of soda in his veins, "oh c'mon, what're you doing being all mopey!" Big goofy smile, stealing hair pins and ties. Always a mix reaction of either hate or relief; that at least he could always find a reason to be happy.
~ Enzo Pevek, District Ten male @fabulousraven


Reaping day. Worst day ever. A day you don't like and no one likes. But there are still more people at the Reaping than there are at your street performances. Why? Because the country is ruled by the biggest jerk in world history.
~ Carmen Stirling, District Eleven female Sleepy Fluttershy


Shaky hands button the buttons. Numb fingers run through his beard. The door remains open for those seeking shelter.
~ Faux Rhodes, District Eleven male knuckles


well, they are, just they're no aliens. They're just robots with a colored porcupine on their head.
~ Hell Mo, District Twelve female @arcticwoof


Unlike Mitchell Laws, he was born to live. Born to live. Then live to die.
~ Carter Laws, District Twelve male Tom