Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

You could do a lot worse.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

It’s not as easy as it looks to come back from the dead.

Your life will only be as good as you continuously interpret it to be regardless of the circumstances that you are faced with.

You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.

There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Everything in nature is resurrection.