David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Quotes

• “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 cl...”
• “Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorw...”
• “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our ...”
• “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.”
• “Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
• “Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.”
• “Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.”
• “The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.”
• “...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.”
• “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”