"You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real."
- Suzanne Collins
Love
"I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them."
- Suzanne Collins
Awareness
"Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there."
- Suzanne Collins
Compassion
"I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that."
- Suzanne Collins
Hope
"The snow may fall but the sun also rises."
- Suzanne Collins
Hope
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity