The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

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.

Time meant nothing. She loved him in an instant.She would love him forever.

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

She [Hillary Clinton] was always expected to win the Democratic nomination so I wouldn't be surprised if they picked those evenings .

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

There is a difference between God as a sense of comfort, and God actually telling you what to do!

Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.