You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?""We have a very big bathtub.

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.

Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

It's my favorite role - being a mom.

We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

If you're mourning, cry, scream and purge whatever is going on inside you emotionally. That's part of the process. And keep those that love you very close as you go through it.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

it's just another way to die

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