[it's the only way she gets through year after year of watching perfectly nice but utterly inept tributes get killed, dashing her hopes of a promotion (amon other, far less governmentally-sanctioned dreams]

[shrugging] That's what I do! One mustn't lose sight of the fact that we're alive, right? Our own little alliance! [no matter how useless Effie may be, alas] And we are so lucky to have people like you in it. I only wish there were more that some of the rest of us could do.