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.

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

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.

A wise man loves any kind of work, be it spiritual, physical or intellectual

The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very gentle.

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

In L.A., everybody ain't so nice.

Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.