I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

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.

There are many languages in the world but the most widely spoken and understood by everyone are power, love and money.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.

As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.