Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

You could do a lot worse.

I love constructive criticism.

Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say thank you.