so people really do tear out their hair and beat the ground with their fists

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.

Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens”.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.

We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.