Maybe, in the end, you had to give up everything, to gain nothing for yourself. If he could see himself doing that, then he could do it. Maybe, deep down, he could do it. He hadn't had the chance to think of it. There had been nothing that would push him to make the choices that he might have made if things were different.

"I think if anyone should be making bread puns, it's me." Peeta laughed, but not with as much feeling as it should. "I guess they do. Really putting us through our paces and all that." Not that he minded hard work, but he understood. This wasn't something any of them wanted to do.