Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

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.

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos.

Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.

Slavery is more mental than anything

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.