I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in any case. Because...she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark

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.

What a bright sunny day, and I don't know what to say...

He's probably the only player who doesn't play for 10 months and, if he scores a hat trick in his first game back, no one would be surprised.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.