Mary

“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Imagination, she figured, just wasn’t up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. It would be like telling someone what sex felt like, or an orgasm. Impossible. But once you felt it yourself, you could then imagine varying degrees of this new sensation.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“Do you know? He says. "I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.”
― Hugh Howey, The Stranded