Favorite quotes from The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

Read time – 2 minutes

“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.”

“The best place to enjoy a stormy night is in a warm room with a book in your lap,”

“As I get older, I find comfort in rereading favorites. It’s like spending time with old friends.”

“Life is like a train that just keeps getting faster and faster and the sooner you realize that the better.”

“Stupid people aren’t usually quiet. Stupid people are usually the noisiest people in the room.”

“Experiences were always better in retrospect, in reminiscence. Was it possible to truly enjoy something in the moment?”

“A good story is just as good the second time around.”

“It’s not the number of books that matters, is it? It’s what one does with them.”

“But it was an impossibility to exist without thought. Even to desire not to think was to think.”

“I prefer books to the real world.”

“This world is awful and mean and I hate it . . . but books have always been a place I can go.”

“My three favorite things in the world: whisky, cakes and pastries, and books.”

“The man smiled at that, and it made his face handsome, as if all of his good looks were tucked away until he was happy.”

“It’s always about the books, isn’t it?”

“He was a man full of stories of a life well lived, a man with more tales than people to tell them to.”

“The only people interested in Times Square are tourists and terrorists.”

“This is the Book of Memories. Share it, to share a memory, Give it, to give a memory, And take it, to take a memory.”

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