It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

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.

Don’t spend your time or money on being boring.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.