Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

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.

For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.

If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.

The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.