The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

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.

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

Your wishes and desires make clear who you are.

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.

I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.

Analyzin' miss clairol, fendi'd down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon

The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.