He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his.

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.

There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

I am not going to ask that old man if his family home is haunted!

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing!

You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.