“Attendance is mandatory unless you are on death’s door.”

" when I was younger, I scared my mother to death."

“So I learn to hold my tongue…”

“You know you mentor is your lifeline to the world in these Games.”

“The woods became our savior, and each day I went a bit farther into its arms.”

"The world begins to bend in alarming ways"

"i trip and fall into a small pit of orange bubbles that hum like the trackerjacker nest"

"He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land...."