David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."

"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"

"Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."

"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."

"I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."

"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."

"...there ain't no journey what don't change you some."

"Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again."

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

"I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."

"I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."

"Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds."

"Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta."