“I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.”

“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”

“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.”

“He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.”

“Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.”

“Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

“Peeta, I say lightly. You said at the interview youd had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?Oh, lets see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red plaid dress and ...”

“Dreams hit the fan? Life unexpectedly take a turn for the worst? Heres what you do:First thing I think is to realize God didnt do this to you. Its just life.Second, know that it sucks. It does.Thir...”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”

“Fireflies in the GardenBy Robert Frost 18741963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were neve...”

“Put the two of us together and we become like moonlight and fireflies... all burning and glowing and lighting up the night.”

“A dark night, lightened up by thousands of glowing fireflies... It's magical...”