How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

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.

Ish #109 "If MapQuest says make a right, go straight. You'll get there quicker.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.