Suzanne Weyn Quotes

“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”

— Suzanne Weyn

“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

“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

“Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin ...”

— Suzanne Weyn

“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

“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

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

“We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.”

— Suzanne Weyn

“You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.”

— Suzanne Weyn

“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

“You have to know where you were going in order to get there.”

— Suzanne Weyn

“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

“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

“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

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

“Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny.”

— Suzanne Weyn

“Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.”

— Suzanne Weyn

The Civil War always moves me.

— Suzanne Weyn

“It's easy to get discouraged; just keep writing because you love to do it, and you'll keep improving.”

— Suzanne Weyn

Mahoney: You have to live. Mr. Magorium: Darlin' ... I have.

— Suzanne Weyn