Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. - Katniss -

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.

If you see the dragon fly, best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!