Doors are for those who lack enemies.

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.

Death is the final destiny of every soul.

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

That was when things got weird. You may have thought things were weird already, but this was uber-weird

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.