Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

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

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.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

Forget yesterday ... Tomorrow still holds happy surprises for us.

Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.

I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents.

Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.