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

"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."

"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."

"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."