A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"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."

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

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

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