"Our great nation suffers from a debilitating addiction. Its name is oil."
— Cloud Atlas -David Mitchell
"Faith, the leas exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"Plainly music is oxygen for us both."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"People are complicated."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"Sail forth, steer for the deep waters only, reckless, O soul, exploring, i with thee and though with me."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"One loses ones eyes in lanes of sea phosphorescence and the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"Like all bullies and tyrants, take pride in that very hatefulness which makes him notorious."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"I come to my journal as a Catholic to a cofessor."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"As many truths as men. Occasionally, i glimpse a truer truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as i approach, it bestirs itself and moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent."
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"..(both circumvented the handicap deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked and accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered..)"
— Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them."
— A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
"A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her"
— A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel."
— A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
