Tuck in your tail, little duck.

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.

If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you’ll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn’t easily found in the self.

What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of expensive books they've never read.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.