Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

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.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.