I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.

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.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

Skype seems the best maybe, as international phone rates are silly. And service is service, that's definitely true. Any time there are two people involved, one of them becomes a server.

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.