Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.”

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s...

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was...

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of...

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing...

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me....

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”

You can only come to the morning through the shadows

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”