I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better wo... - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."