"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" 
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 

"The real violence, the violence I realized was unforgivable, is the violence that we do to ourselves, when we're too afraid to be who we really are." -Nomi, Sense8

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair." 
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas