# Quote — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

> I watched clouds awobbly from the floor o' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

- Author: [David Mitchell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell.md)
- Book: [Cloud Atlas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(novel)#Sloosha's_Crossin'_an'_Evrythin'_After) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas/i-watched-clouds

## More from this book

> "And if you threaten my reputation, oh well, I'll have to ruin yours!"

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas/and-if-you.md)

> I hear my father-in-law's response[...] "Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!"
>
> Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

p. 508 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas/i-hear-my-father-in-laws.md)

> Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas/books-dont-offer.md)