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."

"...there ain't no journey what don't change you some."

"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."

"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."

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."