The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

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 might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

The past looks worse the closer you look at it.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

Relationships don't exist... Relating does.

The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.