More quotes by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta."
"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."
"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."
"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."