The Hunger Games trilogy now rules Amazon Kindle’s Most Highlighted Passages of All Time List. Out of the ten most popular quotes underlined by Kindle readers, eight passages were from the dystopian trilogy that spawned a blockbuster film.
The only non-Hunger Games book to crack the top ten most highlighted passages of all time list was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. This quote has been underlined by more than 8,800 Kindle users: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Here is the most highlighted passage of all time on the Kindle, a quote from Catching Fire (the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy): “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.” This quote has been underlined by 17,784 Kindle users.