When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

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 you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

People define their life by what they want versus what they have. People get fixated on something and they have to have it, even though that voice inside tells them it's not meant for them.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.