That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.

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.

...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

I keep six honest serving men.