We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.