“There are bad people in the world: Murderers and psychopaths and telemarketers who won't take no for an answer.”

“Being raised by a psychopath will do that to you.”

“This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.”

“Caroline: 'You know Sora. I don't. It will hurt you. It won't hurt me. Nothing hurts me.'Lake: 'Liar. Just breathing hurts you so bad, you want to beat the snot out of something.”

“Katie nosed at the carpet and then gave it a good chew. When it proved recalcitrant enough that she couldn't pull it up, she growled."Who's a fierce little girl?" I asked her. "Who's going to kick butt and take names and help her big sister get into all kinds of trouble someday?"Devon snorted. "Sometimes, I think the term bad influence was invented specifically with you in mind.”

“Personally, no matter how tempting it might be, I make it a policy not to surgically bestow near invincibility upon the people who would most like to see me dead.”

“Firecracker Gale and dandelion Peeta are so different from each other that it's easy to imagine that a girl who would choose Gale is a completely different person than one who would choose Peeta. When people sit around debating who Katniss should choose, maybe what they're really debating actually is her identity - and the romance is just a proxy for that big, hard question about the ever-changing, unaware girl on fire.”