David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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