I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

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.

Dance with your rhythm.

Life is a brief shot at something incredible

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Governor Romney is a good debater.

I swim three times a week.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.