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1 " Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. "
― , Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Movie Novelization)
2 " 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? "
3 " 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. "
― , The Bar Code Tattoo (Bar Code, #1)
4 " We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate. "
5 " You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you. "
6 " 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? "
7 " You have to know where you were going in order to get there. "
8 " 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. "
9 " 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 "
10 " 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. "
11 " Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin... "
12 " 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. "
13 " Mahoney: You have to live.Mr. Magorium: Darlin'...I have. "
14 " 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. "
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