Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.

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.

One must as willingly be nothing, as something.

You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian) I see. I’m a Toyota. You’re a Lamborghini.(Channon)

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.