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1 " No problem," Gale replies. " I wake up ten times a night anyway." " To make sure Katniss is still here?" asks Peeta." Something like that," ..." That was funny, what Tigris said. About no one knowing what to do with her." " Well, WE never have," ..." She loves you, you know," says Peeta. " She as good as told me after they whipped you." " Don't believe it," Gale answers. " The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell...well she never kissed me like that." " It was just part of the show," Peeta tells him, although there's an edge of doubt in his voice." No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her." There's a long pause. " I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her then." " You couldn't," says Peeta. " She'd never have forgiven you. You had to take care of her family. They matter more to her than her life." ..." I wonder how she'll make up her mind." " Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. " Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without "
2 " An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask for? "
― Ahmad Ardalan , Baghdad: The Final Gathering
3 " And this is precisely where the tension lies: Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of us demand large territories; both of us have prodigious appetites for meat; both of us require control over our living space and are prepared to defend it, and both of us have an enormous sense of entitlement to the resources around us. If a tiger can poach on another's territory, it probably will, and so, of course, will we. A key difference, however, is that tigers only take what they need. "
― John Vaillant , The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
4 " When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself swimming in the Tigris to cool off after reporting in the city the caliphs called Madinit al-Salam, the City of Peace. A year later, I realized I wouldn't be taking any midnight dips - Madinat al-Salam no more. "
