Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

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.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Are you calling me out? (Varyk) I’m calling you slow. Not out. (Dev)

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.