The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

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.

Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

The purpose of life is life.

Do right. Fear Nothing.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

You only have a number for one day. After that, it is all up to you

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

There are many stages of grief.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.