There are few movies that hit me in the feels like Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium.  It’s a movie about a 243 year old man who runs a magical toy store. Knowing he is about to die, he decides to leave his toy store to Molly, a lady who had been working at the toy store for a long time. Molly, upon realizing that Mr. Magorium is going to die, decides to help him have the most amazing day ever so that he will realize all he has to live for in hopes he will change his mind and decide to live. 

The story is such a sweet one and in so many ways reflects a life well lived. There are so many quotes all throughout the movie that just made my heart smile. So many quotes that could be applied to so many different areas of life. 

Quotes like “We must face tomorrow, whatever it may hold, with determination, joy and bravery!”

Or, 

“37 seconds” (Mr. Magorium)

“Great. Well Done. Now we wait.” (Molly)

“No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime!” (Mr. Magorium)

“Unlikely adventures require unlikely tools.”

“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?” 

But the one that gets my EVERY SINGLE TIME is when he is explaining to Molly that he is about to die. She has been doing everything in her power to show him all he has to live for but she finally accepts that he is really going to die. He looks at her and says, “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.” 

“I’ve lived all 5 of my acts, Mahoney, and I am not asking you to be happy that I must go. I’m only asking that you turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin. And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all it’s wonder and end it with a simple and modest “He died”. 

“I love you.” (Molly)

“I love you too. 

Your life is an occasion, rise to it!”

Maybe it is because I feel like I hear of a different death every other day, when I heard this tonight, I had to get my thoughts out of my head and into writing. I realize this might be a morbid thought, but I would love for that quote to be read at my funeral. At the end of my life, I don’t expect anyone to be happy about it, I’m only asking that those that I leave behind will turn the page, keep reading, and let the next story begin.  And always remember “Your life is an occasion! Rise to it!”