You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

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.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

From no place can you exclude the fates. [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]

She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out.

I'm not depressed and I continue to remain healthy and positive, but developing 'Smash Bros.' is beyond hard.

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

Hellboy was entirely the comic I wish someone much more talented than I was doing, because I would have been a huge fan of that comic. But nobody was doing it, so it fell to me to do it.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.