Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.

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.

Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

New York doesn't buy stars, New York creates them.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.