Cloud Atlas (2012)

Halle Berry: Native Woman, Jocasta Ayrs, Luisa Rey, Indian Party Guest, Ovid, Meronym

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Quotes 

• [from trailer] 

  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.

• Zachry : Who tripped the Fall, if not Old Georgie?

  Meronym : True-true? The Old Uns.

  Zachry : That's just a rope o'smoke. Old Uns got the Smart. They mastered sick and seeds, they make miracles and fly across the sky.

  Meronym : True. All true. But they got somethin' else. A hunger in their hearts, a hunger that's stronger than all their Smart.

  Zachry : Hunger? For what?

  Meronym : A hunger for more.

• [Old Sixsmith notices the "shooting star"-shaped birthmark] 

  Old Rufus Sixsmith : That's a very peculiar birthmark.

  Luisa Rey : Yeah, my mom was sure it was going to be cancerous and kept trying to get me to remove it, but... I kinda like it.

  Old Rufus Sixsmith : I knew someone who had a birthmark that was similar to that.

  Luisa Rey : Who was it?

  Old Rufus Sixsmith : Someone I cared about very much.

• Luisa Rey : You have to do whatever you can't not do.

• [last lines] 

  Miro : Do you still love Grammy?

  Zachry : Your grammy is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Meronym : Come on here, Grampy. Lemme warm them old bones.

• Luisa Rey : You seem nervous. Do I make you nervous, Isaac?

  Isaac Sachs : No. Actually, just the opposite.

• Isaac Sachs : I had... a girlfriend once. She kept trying to get me to read... Carlos Castenada. You ever read any of *that* shit?

  Luisa Rey : Oh yeah.

  Isaac Sachs : But the relationship was doomed. Every time she brought up any of the karma, past life stuff, I-I couldn't stop myself from laughing. And yet... I can't explain it. But I knew when I opened that door...

  [trails off, becomes serious] 

  Isaac Sachs : They destroyed most of the copies of the report.

  Luisa Rey : Most?

  Isaac Sachs : There's no good choice here, is there? If I help you, I could lose my job, or worse. If I don't, a lot of people... yeah it'll be worse than worse.

  Luisa Rey : You have to do... whatever you can't *not* do.

• [Frobisher is misplaying Ayrs' composition] 

  Vyvyan Ayrs : [pained]  Stop. Please. You're hurting me. You must have misheard me. I said a "melody", not a "malady".

  [Jocasta enters] 

  Jocasta Ayrs : Vyvyan?

  Vyvyan Ayrs : Jocasta! Deliver me.

  Jocasta Ayrs : What's going on here? Who is this?

  Jocasta Ayrs : I see. Should I be introduced?

  Vyvyan Ayrs : There's really no point. The boy is as useful as the clap. Fortunately, he'll be much easier to get rid of.

• Luisa Rey : I... called about an old recording, written by a man named Robert Frobisher.

  Store Clerk : Oops, busted. I know I shouldn't be playing it, I was... checking it to make sure it wasn't scratched. But... honestly, I just can't stop listening to it.

  Luisa Rey : This is the "Cloud Atlas Sextet"?

  Store Clerk : It's, uh... the "Symphony".

  Luisa Rey : It's beautiful. But I think I've heard this before.

  Store Clerk : Can't imagine how. I doubt there's more than a... handful of copies in all of North America.

  Luisa Rey : But I know it. I know I know it.

• Luisa Rey : My little meteor.