Today’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is “favorite book quotes.” and it made me wonder how many of you actually save book quotes?

Initially when I chose to answer this prompt, I was going to do exactly what was expected: list 10 book quotes that I loved. But then I started to think about it, and I realized I would have to actually hunt for quotes from some of my favorite books.

Guys, I almost never mark quotes in books! RARELY do I read a passage in a book that I find so moving that I have to save it. It’s definitely not without trying. Every time I start a new book, I tell myself I’m going to mark good quotes. But then I get carried away and days later I find myself finished with the book and nothing marked. Mind you, this is especially difficult since half of the books I “read” are audiobooks!

There are definitely a few books that I loved that are endlessly quotable (see covers below). But again, I never really felt compelled to mark that many of my own (although I do have one page marked in The Bronze Horseman that has a quote I love). And the quotes that I can think of from the books are ones that other people have , highlighted first!

harry potter and the sorcerers stone the bronze horseman cover gone with the wind

So after all this prattling, I am asking you: Do you save book quotes? Am I the only person in the world who doesn’t mark/save/dog-ear/check/whatever book quotes? Or do you ignore them, too, only to look them up on Goodreads at a later date?

To conclude, I will add that I do have a favorite quote. Of course, it’s from the Harry Potter series (and if you haven’t noticed, I actually have a HP quote at the very bottom of this blog if you scroll allllllllll the way down)… And without further delay, my favorite quote of ALL-TIME IS… *drum-roll*

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”


Do you save book quotes? And if so, what is your favorite quote? If you don’t save book quotes, tell me! That way I won’t feel like the worst book blogger ever!