1. "Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them"

2. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

3. "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins."

4. "It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."

5. "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,” Peeta replies.

6. "I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever," he says.

7. "Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

8. "Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead."

9. "Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness,” Peeta points out. “Except possibly when it comes to you."

10. "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."

11. "District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety,"

12. "We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction."

13. "Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch—this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen."

14. "The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the Capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don’t know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment."

15. "He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained."

16. "The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny."

17. "It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love."

18. "Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true Here is the place where I love you."

19. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts"

20. "I watch his hands, his beautiful, capable fingers. Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and deft. Hands that have the power to mine coal but the precision to set a delicate snare. Hands I trust."

21. "Maybe I’d think that, too, Caesar,” says Peeta bitterly, “if it weren’t for the baby."

22. "Over the course of the last five years, the lake’s remarkably unchanged and I’m almost unrecognizable."

23. "What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. It’s that precious, fleeting time before we have accumulated enough pride or position to care what other people might think."

24. "Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay And when again it’s morning, they’ ll wash away. Here it’s safe, here it’s warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm"

25. "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."