"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."
"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."
"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."
"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."
"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."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"