People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.

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.

The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.