More quotes by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."
"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."
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"