I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.

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.

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.

There was an emptiness about the heart of life

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

I've wasted a lot of time pretending to be interested in people who weren't terribly interesting.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

When it's football season, I'm all football.

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.