Lisa Walton

“It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."

I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.

Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas