I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.

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.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.

Wherever you are, be loving, caring, kind, and above all, be happy.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.