Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and... - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
"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."
More quotes by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
"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."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"
"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."