And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

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.

When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly…paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn’t a vanishing mirage

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

One sits down first one thinks afterwards.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.