At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Days, weeks, months, years, " said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz.

Most people chasing their dreams don't see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her