'A kind Peeta Mellark is far more dangerous to me than an unkind one. Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there. And I can't let Peeta do this. Not where we're going.'

For some reason, this made me think of theories around witch trials and their impacts on female friendships. How they fractured trust, communication, and isolated women from their communities. And I wonder if something somewhat similar happened in the districts, especially for the poorest communities. Where they were most likely to have their names drawn, and if the knowledge of that affected how people in those communities connected to each other. Since they never knew if they or their family members might end up fighting someone in the community to the death within the games that year.