My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna__ hands, desirable by Peeta__ confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.