Halle Berry credited as playing...
Native Woman • Jocasta Ayrs • Luisa Rey • Indian Party Guest • Ovid • Meronym
- 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 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.