Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.

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.

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit

I would spend some of it. I would help a lot of people around me. I will change a lot of people's lives around me, honestly.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.