# The Hunger Games
Author:: Suzanne Collins
## AI-Generated Summary
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## Highlights
> “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.” ([Location 232](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002MQYOFW&location=232))
> To make it humiliating as well as torturous, the Capitol requires us to treat the Hunger Games as a festivity, ([Location 234](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002MQYOFW&location=234))
> So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong. ([Location 296](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002MQYOFW&location=296))
> It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love. ([Location 301](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002MQYOFW&location=301))
> What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? ([Location 802](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002MQYOFW&location=802))
> In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren’t scraping by like the majority of us. But here it is different. Wrinkles aren’t desirable. A round belly isn’t a sign of success. ([Location 1560](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002MQYOFW&location=1560))
> It’s funny, because even though they’re rattling on about the Games, it’s all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred. “I was still in bed!” “I had just had my eyebrows dyed!” “I swear I nearly fainted!” Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. ([Location 4425](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002MQYOFW&location=4425))