David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

"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."