Ruby

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it for ever,” he says.

“I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane’s name on it,” I say.

“Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness,” Peeta points out. “Except possibly when it comes to you.”

I said, “I’m sorry, sir, but we don’t speak Swedish.”

“Well, of course you don’t. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish? […]”

“We are flying!”, he announced.

“You’ve never been on a plane before?”

He shook his head. “LOOK!” he half shouted, pointing at the window.

“Yeah,” I said, “Yeah I see it. It looks like we’re in an airplane”.

“NOTHING HAS EVER LOOKED LIKE THAT EVER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY,” he said.

We where sitting on the couch together and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss on my cheek.

“Augustus!” I said.

“Friendly,” he said.

“You here to finish me off, sweetheart?” I whip around. […] “Peeta?” I creep along the bank.

“Well, don’t step on me”.

” […] It’s very shallow here, ok?”

“Excellent,” he says.

“He loves you, you idiot.” Lee says, not unkindly, ”Evan a blind man can see that”.

Viola

[…] But I put my hand up to the back of his neck-

And he says, “Viola-?”

And I pull myself towards him-

And kiss him.

And it feels like, finally.