"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
"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
"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."
- Suzanne Collins
Resilience
"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."
- Suzanne Collins
Self-esteem
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage