Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

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.

If we obey God, we will be happy.

Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

I know if I was a woman I wouldnt want to be a member of an organization thats mostly men.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Music is not my life. Christ is my life.

I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.

We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.