That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.

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.

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.

I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you...""You cannot roll with me, " said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance.

I don't think fundamentally we should ban him [Donald Trump], I don't think we can go around doing that.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with