We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

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.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.