My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.

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.

you can never say you did something truly right because for every action there is an opposite reaction

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.