“The more you can distract yourself, the better.”

“Eventually reality will catch up with you, Dia. You can run and you can distract yourself, but you can't fight it off forever.”

“How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” “The more you can distract yourself the better, ” he says. “First thing tomorrow, we’ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.”

“When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.”

“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”

“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.”