Cloud Atlas

"We cross and re-cross our old paths like figure-skaters."
[Timothy Cavendish]

"There is only one rule that binds all people. One governing principle that defines every relationship on God's green earth: The weak are meat, and the strong do eat."
[Dr. Henry Goose]

Archivist: "In your Revelation, you spoke of the consequences of an individual's life rippling through eternity. Does this mean that you believe in an afterlife? In a heaven or a hell?"
Sonmi-451: "I believe death is only a door. When it closes, another opens. If I cared to imagine a heaven, I would imagine a door opening and behind it, I would find him there."

"A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate 'suicide is shelfisness', while career churchmen like Pater call it a coward's act typically because they lack the necessary suffering to sympathise. Couldn't be further from the truth; suicide takes tremendous courage."
[Robert Frobisher]

Archivist: "What if no one believes you?"
Sonmi-451: "Someone already does."

"I believe there is a another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."
[Robert Frobisher]

Archivist: "On behalf of my Ministry and the future of Unanimity, I want to thank you for the final interview. Remember, this isn't an interrogation or trial. Your version of the truth is all that matters."
Sonmi-451: "Truth is singular. Its "versions" are mistruths."

"Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the Theory of Relativity and Principles of Uncertainty: phenomenon that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday I believed that I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. At each point of intersection, each encounter suggests a new potential direction."
[Isaac Sachs]