What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?

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 always need a sound reason to move on, and we always pretend to have it.

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

It is not about how much activity we are capable of doing but how we are performing the activity that makes the difference.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.

I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.