I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.

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.

Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable.

Not every smiling faces are really smilling..

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.