Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.

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.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Modus in rebus there must be an end of things.