Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

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.

Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

I'm not a guy who is out trying to promote myself. It's really not me.

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.