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“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin.
-- Mr. Magorium”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait."

Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin...”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“Mahoney: You have to live.
Mr. Magorium: Darlin'...I have.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“Toy Empressario
Wonder Afficianado
Avid Shoewearer”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.”
― Suzanne Weyn, The Bar Code Tattoo

“If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.”
― Suzanne Weyn, The Diamond Secret: A Retelling of "Anastasia"

“Your life is an occasion - rise to it.”
― Suzanne Weyn

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written "He dies." That's all, nothing more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential work of dramatic literature is "He dies." It takes Shakespeare, a genius, to come up with "He dies." And yet every time I read those two words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria. And I know it's only natural to be sad, but not because of the words "He dies." but because of the life we saw prior to the words.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“You have to know where you were going in order to get there.”
― Suzanne Weyn, The Bar Code Tattoo

“You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.”
― Suzanne Weyn, The Bar Code Tattoo

“Even thought she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being counted as just one more product on a shelf? There had to be more to a person than that.”
― Suzanne Weyn, The Bar Code Tattoo

“And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“It'll be okay." She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say?”
― Suzanne Weyn, The Bar Code Tattoo

“Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?”
― Suzanne Weyn, The Bar Code Rebellion

“When had all this conformity and sameness set in? How had it happened? When had the varied carols turned into a single corporate advertising jingle?”
― Suzanne Weyn, The Bar Code Rebellion