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Top 20 Most Highlighted Passages of All Time on Kindle Readers

Some interesting facts about this list:

  • It contains only four authors
  • The top 15 quotes were written by two females
  • One author wrote 80% of the quotes (16 total)

All information provided by Amazon, May 20, 2013 Here’s the list:

  1. “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.”
    Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 17784 Kindle users

  2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Book: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
    Highlighted by 9260 Kindle users

  3. “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.”
    Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 9031 Kindle users

  4. “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    Book: Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 8833 Kindle users

  5. “I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you, ” Peeta replies.
    Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 8500 Kindle users

  6. “‘I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,’ he says.”
    Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 8473 Kindle users

  7. “Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    Book: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
    Highlighted by 8437 Kindle users

  8. “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.”
    Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 8223 Kindle users

  9. “‘Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness,’ Peeta points out.  ’Except possibly when it comes to you.’”
    Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 7900 Kindle users

  10. “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 7519 Kindle users

  11. “District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety,”
    Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 7389 Kindle users

  12. “We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
    Book: Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 6685 Kindle users

  13. “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch—this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear.  ”Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”
    Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 6361 Kindle users

  14. “The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the Capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don’t know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.”
    Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 6355 Kindle users

  15. “He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained.”
    Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 6160 Kindle users

  16. “The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
    Book: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
    Highlighted by 6054 Kindle users

  17. “It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”
    Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 6039 Kindle users

  18. “Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true Here is the place where I love you.”
    Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 5579 Kindle users

  19. “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
    Book: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Highlighted by 5291 Kindle users

  20. “I watch his hands, his beautiful, capable fingers. Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and deft. Hands that have the power to mine coal but the precision to set a delicate snare. Hands I trust.”
    Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
    Highlighted by 5245 Kindle users
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CAMERA OBSCURA BY  ABELARDO MORELL

Photographer Abelardo Morell - “I made my first picture using camera obscura techniques in my darkened living room in 1991. In setting up a room to make this kind of photograph, I cover all windows with black plastic in order to achieve total darkness. Then, I cut a small hole in the material I use to cover the windows. This opening allows an inverted image of the view outside to flood onto the back walls of the room. Typically then I focused my large-format camera on the incoming image on the wall then make a camera exposure on film. In the beginning, exposures took from five to ten hours”. [see more]

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Writing Haiku*

First line, the first five. 
Syllables six through twelve, now.
Finish seventeen
 
* Significantly rewritten because I found something very similar to my original post had already been written.

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This is a cool photography history group based in Rochester, NY. They are  hosting an event today with Kodak’s Jennifer Cisney talking about the role social media has played in promoting film photography. 

Please share with your friends.

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Over 50,000 people have viewed this article in the last couple of days. I bet we can push it to over 100,000!

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It’s Where You Step Back and Take Stock on Flickr.

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Shot using the same pack of expired Impossible Project PX 70 Color Shade PUSH film using a Polaroid SX-70

Normally I’d talk about the beauty of failure here, but not this time.

I’ve decided to take some time away to take stock, try new things, and really figure out what I’m trying to do with photography.

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Zero Knowledge on Flickr.

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PHEW! AND YEAH! THE CHOICE IS MADE!
We promised you news – and here they are: OBSCURA’s 6 awesome judges Ulla, Jörg, Tom, Chris, Nora and Jussi have all made their choice! And what’s more: the OBSCURA team has consolidated all the votes, and finally picked the 121 winning pinholes to be published in the book.
It’s been a long wait, but it was worth it, things are starting to roll: In the next couple of days, the photographers of our winning pinholes are going to be notified by e-mail or Flickr message. For those of you who don’t hear from us in the next couple of days – there’s still a chance to be in the book, as there will be a “waiting list” in case of “no-shows”.
So, our dearest participants, keep a close eye on your inboxes!

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PHEW! AND YEAH! THE CHOICE IS MADE!



We promised you news – and here they are: OBSCURA’s 6 awesome judges Ulla, Jörg, Tom, Chris, Nora and Jussi have all made their choice! And what’s more: the OBSCURA team has consolidated all the votes, and finally picked the 121 winning pinholes to be published in the book.


It’s been a long wait, but it was worth it, things are starting to roll: In the next couple of days, the photographers of our winning pinholes are going to be notified by e-mail or Flickr message. For those of you who don’t hear from us in the next couple of days – there’s still a chance to be in the book, as there will be a “waiting list” in case of “no-shows”.


So, our dearest participants, keep a close eye on your inboxes!

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