My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

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.

There is something you can do that nobody else can do

Dear God, she was getting turned on in the middle of a roadside emergency. This had to stop.

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

I love Australian people.

Remembrances last longer than present realities.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from him.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.