Girls, now, they wear leggings. As pants. It's embarrassing. Just parading their coochies around town.

Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

When the truffles arrived the paintings leaned off the wall toward them.

The city was radiant and I felt untouchable.

I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go?

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now.

I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.

The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.