Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

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.

We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

The misery of life lies in our thinking".

The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

If you hold on to the negative, there is no room for the positive to come into your life.

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

The door of the human heart, can only be opened from the inside.