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.

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

The most exciting thing either of us does is nap.

"I don't know how to say it exactly. Only... I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?" he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself. "I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not."

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.

The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.” -Katniss Everdeen