Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.

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.

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.

Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.