Jared Marks

“I don’t know why it is, but secrets jus’ rot you like teeth if you don’t yank ’em out.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“It is not that they chose to die, but rather that they could no longer figure out how to live.”
― Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

“though in our age crimes are not committed by criminals conveniently at hand but by executive pens far beyond the mob’s reach,”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Cowardice is nothing to do with it—suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what’s selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching. The only selfishness lies in ruining strangers’ days by forcing ’em to witness a grotesqueness.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas