I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with failure.

The Lord has predestined a specific path for every person

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation