And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

The star-crossed lovers

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

My worst expectations never happened.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Baseball is a game of inches.

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

I've never been to Thailand and I've only heard good things about it. I really want to make my way there.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.