Lance's Favorite Lines from the Reaping Acceptances

"The girl made her way up to the stage, and she could see the face of her younger brother in the crowd, full of fear. She tried to give him a look of reassurance, and took her place. She smiled brightly to the escort, and told herself in her mind that she was ready. As someone full of confidence, Za-Za knew that she was indeed prepared. Now was the time." -Lorenza Aita [Kaplan] D1f


"Fuck the curse, he thought. He would make it a legend." -Kaiser Fray [Python] D1m


"In all honesty, I refuse to go insane. My biggest disappointment was that I could not enjoy my afternoon nap. People will pay for this atrocity. If I have the opportunity to enact revenge on the people held responsible for this abomination, I will do so. I do not have a choice." -Aline Larkin [Noodles] D2f


"He doesn't need to hear the words to know that somewhere in the crowd, his father is screaming at him to cut out this foolishness at once, that this is Mr. McGregor's expression of love and grief. He doesn't need to hear the silence to know that somewhere in the crowd, his mother is biting her lip — equal parts in worry and in tactic: a proud smile won't suppress itself, but it doesn't take a career's training to know well enough that optimism is for fools." -Gregor McGregor [Aya] D2m


"I've finished knowing and knowing I have finished, I'll leave you to the obvious conclusion." -Adelaide Throes [Kay] D3f


"I don't want to be sober, especially not when the daylight breaks through my blinds and drags me from euphoria I don't need to induce by letting my lungs waste away." -Ree Fer [Kousei] D3m


"I was thinking for hours, I was thinking for what felt like years. Eyes sewn open, so tight that the night can’t even lull them shut. Naked in the moonlight, contemplating whether or not separation is the solution to my problem. Running away is a probably considered the extreme, but it would be my extreme. I’m so bitter about my parents’ thirst for five minutes of fame that it feels like a sweet escape is the only way out.
A heartfelt scream into the sea—the sea heard." -Lux Pelotte [Azaleah] D4f


"We own this day, not them." -Hero Marvray [Thundy] D4m


"They must have found whoever it is. They must be staring at them, relieved it's not them and just waiting for them to take their spot to die.
Then my mind clears itself to prepare myself to be able to leave the town square and this reaping.
Their eyes are resting on me." -Cameron Dialate [Puppy] D5f


He might not die here and now, but every day is a good day to die.
Every —
Day —
Fuck. -Jacob Wickham [Lalia] D5m


"Oh well, an exhale, Basil taking her place in the reaping crowd; she tried to stay apathetic. Never get heart broken, attached, never scared- anxiety licked her lips and she kept her eyes down. Two people die, rinse and repeat but it was never her, it was never her and she had to be okay with that.
It's all she could do." -Basil Isley [Rave] D6f


"There was only silence in the end.
A man who held a war between past and present in the confines of his mind.
It all started with a letter, but it would end with a name.
Teddy's name." -Teddy Ursa [Tom] D6m


"I used to think I could fix everything, used to think I was in control. But no one's in control of a world like Panem.
I'm not in control when the escort speaks my name.
But none of that stops me from pretending to be." -Clementina Ogden [Arx] D7f


"Mother and father repeated the same words over and over before they threw the harsh, unwanted phrases at me. Tearing down the soul of a young boy who wanted nothing more than to grow up and become a man like his father. But I taught them a lesson, and they'll never hurt me ever again." -Chester Meisenzahl [Ems] D7m


"As a lady of honour, I accept the fate handed to me." A small glint appeared in her eye and she stared down at the peacekeeper from before. "It's a shame not everyone show the same gallantry." -Rhetoric Anadiplosis [Kire] D8f


"So why am I doing this?
Because we've lost everything, and there's no hope for the future." -McCarthy Balmain [Gryphon] D8m


"I should have let West come with me last winter. Should have let her escape, found her a nice family on those hills of houses who'd take her in and keep her warm. Should have laid in the ice a little longer, watching the sky turn blue to grey to white. Should have stayed there, fallen asleep in the snow, let the gentle white fall bury my body. Should have let my heart beat slow down until I was an echo of it, then a memory, then the aching silence of it's passing. At least then I could decide for myself how I died.
But West...
I always came back for West." -Glacia Eon [Zoe] D9f


"I run my fingers through a hair again in an attempt to flatten it down but it springs right up, ready to greet the fucking day I guess. Perfect. C'est la fucking bee." -Titus [redacted] [Elegant] D9m


"I told you so — it is the resolution to the omen whispered by the wind." -Emberly Lowe [Briar] D10f


"I am just doing what Rodney should have done five years ago; saved the life of another, another’s life who was superior to his own. There is only going to be one disadvantage to this, I won’t be able to see if he proved me right. I wonder if he wears black to my funeral." -Rory Benstaloe [Frankel] D10m


"Breath in.
"Raquel Izar!"
Breath out.
I can see the Peacekeepers coming, but I step out of the crowd before they can get to me. I have no intentions of being dragged onto the stage. I am an Izar, I am not a coward. I will not sob or hide or cover my face. I will take my place on stage and comfort myself with the fact that Sofia is not standing where I am." -Raquel Izar [Solo] D11f


"Wall-E stood at the top of that stage and showed no emotion, because any emotion in a hell he's about to endure is a dedication to death. He swallowed down his tears, gulped his fears away. He glanced away from his worries. The only thing he could remember was the project he hadn't finished, and everything else become useless." -Walherich Cnáimhín [Arctic] D11m


"She stood on the stage, her eyes falling on the relieved faces of all the girls below her. They had been passed over by death and were now waiting to be let go to the safety of their homes.
Home. Had Dandy seen the last of her's this morning?
Dandy's usual calm cracked. Panic rose into her throat, and for the first time in her life Dandy realized that it wasn't going to be okay." -Dandy Gordon [Greenbeads] D12f


"The only day that they seemed to eat well is around the first of the month with each tessera that was made to be taken from both of the boys that Wendell had to help care for. It was his decision that kept the boys at a higher chance of being taken away. It was a sacrifice he was willing to make to make." -Wendell Gordon [Marr] D12m