Nothing has changed, except everything.
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas.
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming...”
“Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.”
“Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.”
“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 so...”
“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like b...”
“It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be love...”