More quotes by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."
"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"
"I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."
"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."