You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

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.

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency — how to accurately anticipate the future.

Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.

My heart is one part predatorAnd one part saint!Most of it is crazyAnd a little bit too saneIt falls for allBut beats for noneIt’s one part brokenStill shoots like a machine gun!

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.