Cloud Atlas

Vyvyan Ayrs: "That's it! The music from my dream."
Robert Frobisher: "I call it the 'Cloud Atlas Sextet'."

Javier: "What are you reading?"
Luisa Rey: "Old letters."
Javier: "Why do you keep reading them?"
Luisa Rey: "I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over."

"A half-finished book is, after all, a half finished love affair."
[Robert Frobisher]

Sonmi-451: "That ship... that ship must be destroyed."
Hae-Joo Chang: "Yes."
Sonmi-451: "The systems that built them must be turned down."
Hae-Joo Chang: "Yes."
Sonmi-451: "No matter if we're born in a tank or a womb, we are all Pureblood."
Hae-Joo Chang: "Yes."
Sonmi-451: "We must all fight and, if necessary, die to teach people the truth."
Hae-Joo Chang: "This is what we have been waiting for."

"What is a critic but one who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely."
[Timothy Cavendish]

Archivist: "Why didn't you report Yoona-939 to Seer Rhee the next day?"
Sonmi-451: "I couldn't."
Archivist: "Why?"
Sonmi-451: "Because she trusted me."
Archivist: "But your actions violated the Fifth Catechism."
Sonmi-451: "That's true."
Archivist: "How did you justify this transgression?"
Sonmi-451: "She was my friend."

"This is a violation of the ruddy Incarceration Act! I will not be subjugated to criminal abuse!"
[Cavendish Look-A-Like Actor]

Adam Ewing: "I don't know what would have happened without you there."
Dr. Henry Goose: "Well, for starters, you would have died!"
Adam Ewing: "I don't know how to repay you."
Dr. Henry Goose: "Adam, I am a doctor. A tiger cannot change his stripes."