Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.

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.

Ungentlemanliness?” he teased. “I dare you to say that five times fast.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish

If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.