The Hunger Games series makes Amazon Kindle’s Most Highlighted Passages of All Time list eight times! The other two spots belong to someone you may have heard of – Jane Austen.
Looking at the top 25 spots on the list, only five belong to other books. Check out the top 10 most highlighted passages below. Notice that the #1 passage is highlighted almost twice as much as the #2 passage. To see all of the passages check out The Most Highlighted Passages of All Time list. Did your favorite passages make the list?
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Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.
Highlighted by 17784 Kindle users
Catching Fire (The Second Book of The Hunger Games)
by Suzanne Collins
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The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.
Highlighted by 9031 Kindle users
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Highlighted by 8836 Kindle users
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Highlighted by 8833 Kindle users
Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)
by Suzanne Collins
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“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,” Peeta replies.
Highlighted by 8500 Kindle users
Catching Fire (The Second Book of The Hunger Games)
by Suzanne Collins
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“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says.
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Catching Fire (The Second Book of The Hunger Games)
by Suzanne Collins
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Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.
Highlighted by 8223 Kindle users
Catching Fire (The Second Book of The Hunger Games)
by Suzanne Collins
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Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Highlighted by 8005 Kindle users
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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“Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness,” Peeta points out. “Except possibly when it comes to you.”
Highlighted by 7900 Kindle users
Catching Fire (The Second Book of The Hunger Games)
by Suzanne Collins
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I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
Highlighted by 7519 Kindle users
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins