BOOK STARTERS [4] ( CLOUD ATLAS ) ( DAVID MITCHELL )
- ❛ A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat. ❜
- ❛ So, kill me. Tell the others I attacked you so you killed me. ❜
- ❛ Should never have come here. ❜
- ❛ Hard to guess my tastes. ❜
- ❛ Can’t it wait until the morning? ❜
- ❛ You’ll find temper tantrums won’t help you here. ❜
- ❛ It must have taken courage to return. ❜
- ❛ It all sounds grimly dystopian. ❜
- ❛ I am not afraid of you! ❜
- ❛ All this could be avoided! ❜
- ❛ You consider me a murderer? ❜
- ❛ Gross way to die. ❜
- ❛ What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. ❜
- ❛ My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? ❜
- ❛ Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others. ❜
- ❛ I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there. ❜
- ❛ You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective - it just means you’re human. ❜
- ❛ Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible. ❜
- ❛ Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. ❜
- ❛ Truth is singular. Its ‘versions’ are mistruths. ❜
- ❛ Dreams are all I have ever truly owned. ❜
- ❛ Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. ❜
- ❛ I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. ❜
- ❛ By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. ❜
- ❛ The healthy can’t understand the emptied, the broken. ❜
- ❛ Lying’s wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. ❜
- ❛ The weak are meat the strong do eat. ❜
- ❛ Do whatever you can’t not do. ❜
- ❛ What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. ❜
- ❛ I remain thankful to God for all his mercies. ❜
- ❛ 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. ❜
- ❛ Power. The ability to determine another man’s luck. ❜
- ❛ Pain is strong, aye - but friends’ eyes, more strong. ❜
- ❛ Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively. ❜
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❛ Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions? ❜