Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand 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.

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.

In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).

Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.