"My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead."

“Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!”

“I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.”

“Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”

Source : "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

“In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.”

Source : "HitFix Interview: Janet Montgomery talks ‘Human Target,’ ‘Black Swan’ and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 16, 2010.

“There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined, depleted, drained, overworked, over-loved, its plants and animals becoming endangered and exterminated faster than we can renew them. Our country is silent, so we must speak and act to save it.”

Source : Di Morrissey (2011). “The Silent Country”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

“The only good cage is an empty cage.”

Source : Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.368, Pan Macmillan

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”

“Don't give up before the miracle happens.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.1145, Random House