“We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?”

“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”

“it doesn’t matter where we are going, or what the future brings and what people might do to us, the past always comes back one way or another.”

“But we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is, would you not agree?”

“It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves.Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.”

“We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us– we all dream.”