I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

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.

Love is force of being.

Worship means respecting all of God’s creation.

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.

The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.