You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

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 sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

The River SwishDeftly maneuvered through the dark green abyss ~The wooden raft seemed in tune with this ~Canorous rush of theriver swish....

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

The sign brings customers.

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.