`` do n't congratulate me on her death like it 's some sort of sport . thomas read them all in year three . `` that 's all that ever happened , '' he repeated , his voice husky . not as something less but somehow as something more ? i slide it open and lean out and look down . her scream turned into a howl ; her body twisted and fell forward , and she caught herself upright . he was the foreman , but he still had only one vote . 