Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

Philosophy is so interesting that it makes you feel boring.

Love has two faces, one makes you alive and the other destroys you...

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

You know everybody has something to say. I'll be worried when they say nothing.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.