David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"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."

"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?"

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."