I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

I should like to see you try.

I'm no good at being good.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

All wealth is the product of thoughts, labor, and love.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.