Crying is not an option.

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.

You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether

If a person cannot protect you, it is because you were meant to perfect them.If they cannot perfect you, you are meant to protect them.

I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Like a raisin in the sun; that will swivel up and fade away. Your success dreams will swivel up and fade away, if you are not motivated enough to work for them.

You can wake me up now - these last four weeks in America have been incredible.

God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.

Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same