Cloud Atlas (film)

"Bridge a'broken, hide below. Hands a'bleedin', can't let go. Enemy's sleeping, don't slit that throat."

"We are bound together from womb to tomb."

"Let Sonmi guide your heart."

"Trust Sonmi! Keep her warnin' with you, nail it to your memory."

"I in trouble dead"

"They no hear I. They say “swim away home, nigger”, and throw I in drink"

"I be no fish food Mr. Ewing."

"Then I stay here... I must. Mr. Ewing saved my life. It my duty."

"Pain strong, aye....Friends are more strong."

"And thus it was when I made the acquaintance of Dr. Henry Goose the man I hoped might cure me of my affliction."

"If God created the world, how do we know what things we can change and what things must remain sacred and inviolable?"

"My parasite writhes at night, igniting spasms of pain, while visions and voices, obscene and monstrous, haunt me."

"I've begun to fear that I may never hold my beloved Tilda in my arms again."

"I don't know what I would have done had our paths not crossed."

"There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well."

"The weak are meat and the strong do eat."

"A tiger cannot change his stripes."

"This beach was once a cannibals' banqueting hall. Where the strong gorged on the weak, but the teeth, sir, they spat out like you or I would expel a cherry stone. Do you know the price a quarter pound of these will earn?"

"Proposition: I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet...I feel like something important has happened to me."

"Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity, and principles of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, they can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born, and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment, at each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction."

"Do you ever think that the universe is against you?"

"Question one: What secret in Sixsmith's report would be worth killing him for? Question two: Is it reasonable to believe that they would kill again to protect that secret? And if so, question three: What the fuck am I doing here?"

"You have to do whatever you can't not do."

"My father braved booby-trapped marshes and the wrath of generals for his journalistic integrity. What kind of daughter would I be if I bailed when things got a little tough?"

"Nice to know the age of chivalry isn't dead."

"If you fall I catch you."

"I know. I know."

"Don't leave me here!"

"Are there no true Scotsmen in the house? Those there English gerrunts are tramplin' all over my God-given rights! They've used me and my pals most direly. And we are in need of a wee bit of assistance!"

"Sixsmith, I do hope you will be able to find it in your heart to forgive me."

"My dearest Sixsmith, I shot myself through the roof of my mouth this morning, with Vyvyan Ayrs' Luger. A true suicide is a paced disciplined certainty. People pontificate, 'suicide is a coward's act'. Couldn't be further from the truth. Suicide takes tremendous courage."

"Don't let them say I killed myself for love. Had my infatuations, but we both know in our hearts who is the sole love of my short, bright life."

"I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so."

"A half-finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair."

"I believe there is a another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."

"At this point in my life, all I know, Sixsmith, is that this world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts."

"Honor Thy Consumer"

"If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. I couldn't allow that."

"Truth is singular. Its "versions" are mistruths."

"I believe death is only a door, when it closes, another opens. If I care to imagine heaven. I would imagine a door opening. And behind it, I would find him there, waiting for me."

"You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power."

"Knowledge is a mirror, and for the first time in my life, I was allowed to see who I was, and who I might become."

"To be is to be perceived. And so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds that go on apportioning themselves throughout all time. Our lives are not our own; from womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness we birth our future."

"While my extensive experience as an editor has led me to a disdain for flashbacks and flash forwards and all such tricksy gimmicks I believe that if you, dear Reader, can extend your patience for just a moment, you will find that there is a Method to this tale of Madness."

"In the darkness, I suddenly saw the light. Blood has always trumped water. If the Hogginses brutes wanted to turn this into a family affair, they'd find the Cavendish clan more than ready for the task at hand."

"Freedom. The fatuous jingle of our civilization. But only those deprived of it have the barest inkling of what it really is."

"We cross and recross our old tracks like figure skaters."

"What is a critic but one who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely?"

"My thoughts? If I'm honest, I admit that the obvious emotions like shock and horror flew as Finch had, here and gone... While deep down, I experienced a nascent sense of a silver lining to this most tragic turn."

"I was for the briefest of moments... Cinderella and all memory of past misfortune receded in the rearview mirror of my dream come true."