Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

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.

It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot!

Am I really standing here, conversing with a bloody unicorn?" Tiffy was certain her mind had finally left the building.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

I'm not going to waste my time trying 'break' America, you know what I mean? Too many people have died trying to break America. America doesn't break unless it wants to.