This is no place for a girl on fire.

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 are what you inhabit.

A muffin what? Are you asking me to eat you or something?

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

I believe there is a right way to fail and a wrong way to fail.

memories fall apart too.

I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.