Jamie

“Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. “We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman’s memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“This morn I awoke to the laments of fallen angels.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“My soul may be stoned an' my luck may be rotted but I can still cuss a cuss”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas