At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

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.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

I have never stopped playing music.

We put out a live thing, it seemed more like a bootleg though but, it would be nice to see like a concert filmed with like good cameras you know, instead of just DV cams.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

I'm proud to be part of a generation that is looking ahead and wants to see a brighter future.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.