I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

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?

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.