“Happiness is not something you sit and wait for. You have to choose it and pursue it in spite of everything else. It’s not going to be given to you.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“The best place to enjoy a stormy night is in a warm room with a book in your lap,”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“I’ve read it before, but as I get older, I find comfort in rereading favorites. It’s like spending time with old friends.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Life is like a train that just keeps getting faster and faster and the sooner you realize that the better.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Don’t waste your life hidden away in your own mind. Make the most of the time you have, otherwise before you know it, you’ll have no time left.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Whatever you need to do, you get it done and you move on. Put it behind you and survive.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“What he hasn’t realized is stupid people aren’t usually quiet. Stupid people are usually the noisiest people in the room.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“This is the Book of Doors. Hold it in your hand, and any door is every door.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Because if you stop you admit the bad stuff has won, don’t you? All you can do is keep going. Refuse to be beaten, even when you are beaten. The bad stuff only wins if you let it. I refuse to be beaten, Cassie. I refuse.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Somebody once told me that you can’t change the past, you can only create the present you live in.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“A seedling of hope poked through the dry earth of her heart, but she refused to water”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“She wondered then if experiences were always better in retrospect, in reminiscence. Was it possible to truly enjoy something in the moment?”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“But you have to let things go or it will eat you up. Let things pass.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“The young have the loudest dreams,” Drummond murmured, more to himself. “Unfettered by life and reality.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“A good story is just as good the second time around,” she said.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Happiness is not something you sit and wait for. You have to choose it and pursue it in spite of everything else.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Both were tall and thin and blessed with flowing and lustrous blond hair. “They look like a shampoo advertisement,” Izzy observed. “For Nazis.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“They came together so rarely, but Drummond wondered if the meetings would be as good if they happened more often. Would they enjoy each other as much if they met more frequently? He knew these were the uncertain thoughts of an introvert, and he pushed them away in an attempt to live in the moment.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“I am firmly of the view that more people in this world could use their brains more often, but my dear, if anyone needs to think less about things it is you.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“All you can do is keep going. Refuse to be beaten, even when you are beaten.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Stupid people are usually the noisiest people in the room.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“This world is awful and mean and I hate it . . . but books have always been a place I can go.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“This was not something to run from. This was the thrill of human emotion, of sensation, of life.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“But it was an impossibility to exist without thought. Even to desire not to think was to think.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“I prefer books to the real world.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“He had to find the two women. They were in immense danger, the like of which they couldn’t possibly comprehend.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“It had been a good meal, a long, luxurious event that none of them had wanted to end. They came together so rarely, but Drummond wondered if the meetings would be as good if they happened more often. Would they enjoy each other as much if they met more frequently? He knew these were the uncertain thoughts of an introvert, and he pushed them away in an attempt to live in the moment.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“You hide away from reality. But that’s not living. You know it.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors