The Castaways

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CASTAWAYS

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

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I am

Chelsey
18 years old
a professional procrastinator
an amateur storyteller

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[attr="class","ProfileFull"] [attr="class","ProfileText"] LORRAINE MERCIER District 4 | 16	[attr="class","ProfileFull"] [attr="class","ProfileText"] CEDRIC LANE District 12 | 18
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[attr="class","ProfileFull"] [attr="class","ProfileText"] ALEC KAI Wanderer | 23	[attr="class","ProfileFull"] [attr="class","ProfileText"] CORAZONA D'OR The Capitol | 26

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GRAVEYARD

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

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heather elliot

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16 Years Old | District 11 | ▶

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Died in the 62nd Games.

"If I cannot sing, let me fly."
- STEPHEN SONDHEIM

"All your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise."

wan·der·lust
noun.
an impulsive and irresistible desire to travel; the innate urge to discover the world; a lust for adventure

"I'd rather be a coward than a murderer."

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basil anatola

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17 Years Old | District 7 | ▶

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Died in the 72nd Games.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- OSCAR WILDE

"Every artist who has not experienced tragedy - who has not held his own sadness in between the expanse of his palms - is probably not a very good one."

"Destiny, Fate, God, or whatever other Bullshit laughing at me in the sky always has a funny way of reminding me that there will always be things I'll never have control over."

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
- JOHN KEATS

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Cedric Lane

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18 Years Old | District 12 | ▶

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Died in the 73rd Games.

"Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language."
- MARK SLOUKA

"Riff-raff, street rat. I don't buy that. If only they'd look closer.

Would they see a poor boy?
No siree. They'd find out there's so much more to me."

"And if there's a reason I'm still alive when everyone who loves me has died, I'm willing to wait for it."

"Baby, I'm yours.
And I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky.

In other words, until I die."

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THE CAPITOL

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

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corazona d'or

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26 Years Old | The Capitol | ▶

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"I like the scars because I like the stories. Bravery, stupidity, pain — none of them come free."
- JESSICA MARTINEZ

"I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."
- J.K. ROWLING

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DISTRICT 1

“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”

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DISTRICT 2

“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”

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blue eisley

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17 Years Old | District 2 | ▶

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"Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing."
- THEO ROSSI

“'Blue. My name's Blue Sargent.'
'Blair?'
'Blue.'
'Blaize?'
Blue sighed. 'Jane.'”
- MAGGIE STIEFVATER

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DISTRICT 3

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

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dmitri ryre

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18 Years Old | District 3 | ▶

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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
- SYLVIA PLATH

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lestia mercury

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16 Years Old | District 3 | ▶

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"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
- OSCAR WILDE

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carmella venus

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16 Years Old | District 3 | ▶

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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."
- W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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DISTRICT 4

“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whiskey? Do they cry?”

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lorraine mercier

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16 Years Old | District 4 | ▶

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"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
- EDWIN LOUIS COLE

"What's the point of moving forward when you're just swimming in circles?"

"That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful."
- ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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dorothea day

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17 Years Old | District 4 | ▶

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"Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself, and laissez-faire for others."
- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"And, every night my mind is running around her. Thunder is getting louder and louder.

Baby, you're like lightning in a bottle."

"Okay, so maybe I am a bit insensitive to the dead - but that's nothing new. Being desensitized to death is sort of a side effect to living and working in a mortuary."

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ursula libertine

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19 Years Old | District 4 | ▶

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"I don’t pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me
many times and began again in the morning."
- NAYYIRAH WAHEED

"Villains don't get happy endings. Do you believe that?"
"I hope not, or we've wasted our lives."

"So why don't we
just play pretend,
like we're not scared
of what is coming next
or scared of having
nothing left?"

"Something inside her plummets into the void. She waits to hear it shatter across the bottom, crack and groan and break from the weight of the darkness it fell into.

She waits and hears nothing."

"My capacity to love has been trampled too much, my God. All I have left is a flicker of desire."
- CLARICE LISPECTOR

"What if the devil doesn't know he's the devil?"
- CATHRINE GOLDSTEIN

"It’s amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks."
- ROBERT CORMIER

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DISTRICT 5

“Love is in the air, but the air is highly polluted.”

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edgar

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20 Years Old | District 5 | ▶

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"I don’t want to set things on fire anymore.

That’s all. That’s all."
- DARSHANA SURESH

"People are going to tell you who you are your whole life. You just got to punch back and say 'No, this is who I am.'"

"Edgar knows a lot about burning. He’s felt it in fires that devoured his home, in the swing of his fist as it connected with a boy’s jaw, in the gulp of his fifth glass of whiskey for the night. He was born from fires, from burning, and when the fire extinguished, he was an orphan to its ashes."

"What the fuck do you think I'm doing right now? That’s all I can do! All I'm fucking doing is feeling!"

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DISTRICT 6

“Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.”

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douglas sepulveda

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25 Years Old | District 6 | ▶

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"Without forgetting, it is quite impossible to live at all."
- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

coup de foudre
a french expression:
bolt of lightning; love at first sight

"I’m also someone who deserves to be loved with more than her heart. Her sick, revolting, black heart, who falls in love with people who are not me, while I rot away on that deathbed of a hospital cot while still dreaming of her."

"I remember."

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DISTRICT 7

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”

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DISTRICT 8

“Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it.”

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DISTRICT 9

“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules.”

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DISTRICT 10

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them."

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elijah harper

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17 Years Old | District 10 | ▶

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"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
- HARUKI MURAKAMI

"When I'm with her, I feel happy to be alive. Like I can do anything."

"Some people are born with question marks in their eyes that they just can't blink away."

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DISTRICT 11

“In the end, the world returns to a grain."

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eden hark

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18 Years Old | District 11 | ▶

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"The man who once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith."
- ANAÏS NIN

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DISTRICT 12

“What are men to rocks and mountains?"