You're hideous, you know that, right?

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.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.

It's hot as hell as can be.

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.