‘Sunrise On The Reaping,’ the newest Hunger Games prequel, is set 24-25 years before the original trilogy—but it follows some very familiar characters, including its protagonist, a young Haymitch Abernathy. It follows his life from District 12 and into the arena for the Quarter Quell, where he’s pitted against 47 other children to fight for his life. But what’s perhaps the most interesting part of the book is that we see who Katniss and Peeta’s drunken mentor used to be, and see the roadmap to how all three Victors got to where they were by the end of the trilogy, for better or for worse.

With the movie now in development, we officially have the actor who will play young Haymitch: we’ve got a fairly fresh face in Joseph Zada. To prepare for what we’re about to see, let’s refresh the best book quotes—if you’re not afraid to have your heart broken all over again.

1.

The snow may fall, but the sun also rises.

2.

They will not use my tears for their entertainment.

3.

The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.

4.

And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.

5.

“You were capable of imagining a different future. And maybe it won’t be realized today, maybe not in our lifetime. Maybe it will take generations. We’re all part of a continuum. Does that make it pointless?”

6.

I guess that’s my answer. A sister is someone you fight with and fight for. Tooth and nail.

7.

“She doesn’t belong to them,” snaps Maysilee. “Don’t just hand her over. Make them fight for her. Run!” So I do. And I’m a fast runner. The only kid who can beat me in footraces at school is Woodbine Chance. Well, he used to, anyway. I run for Louella, but I run for Woodbine, too, because he’ll never run again.

8.

Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn’t have to be so terrifying. That’s on people, not the world.

9.

I know that every year for my birthday, I will get a new pair of tributes, one girl and one boy, to mentor to their deaths. Another sunrise on the reaping.

10.

And while Lenore Dove will forever be my true love, Louella is my one and only sweetheart.

11.

A cannon fires. Somewhere, Beetee’s heart breaks into fragments so small it can never be repaired.

12.

Each book’s as precious as a person, she says, as it preserves someone’s thoughts and feelings long after they’re gone.

13.

She touches the snake’s head, then the bird’s, in turn. “It takes a lot other break these two. They’re survivors.”

14.

I would welcome death, if it wasn’t for my promise to Lenore Dove that I would somehow keep the sun from rising on the reaping.

15.

I know one thing, though: The Capitol can never take Lenore Dove from me again. They never really did in the first place. Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping, and she is the most precious thing I’ve ever known.

When I tell her that, she always says, “I love you like all-fire.”

And I reply, “I love you like all-fire, too.”

16.

When Lenore Dove comes to me now, she’s not angry or dying, so I think she’s forgiven me. She’s grown older with me, her face etched with fine lines, her hair touched with gray. Like she’s been living her life beside me as the years passed, instead of lying in her grave. Still so rare and radiant. I fulfilled my promise about the reaping, or at least lent a hand, but she says I can’t come to her yet. I have to look after my family.