Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!

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.

Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?

But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

My weapon is literature

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.