Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

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.

Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.