Timothy Cavendish quotes from Cloud Atlas (2012)

Played by Jim Broadbent

View Quote While my extensive experience as an editor has led me to a disdain for flashbacks and flash forwards and all such tricksy gimmicks I believe that if you, dear Reader, can extend your patience for just a moment, you will find that there is a Method to this tale of Madness.

View Quote In the darkness, I suddenly saw the light. Blood has always trumped water. If the Hogginses brutes wanted to turn this into a family affair, they'd find the Cavendish clan more than ready for the task at hand.

View Quote Freedom. The fatuous jingle of our civilization. But only those deprived of it have the barest inkling of what it really is.

View Quote We cross and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

View Quote What is a critic but one who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely?

View Quote My thoughts? If I'm honest, I admit that the obvious emotions like shock and horror flew as Finch had, here and gone... While deep down, I experienced a nascent sense of a silver lining to this most tragic turn.

View Quote I was for the briefest of moments... Cinderella and all memory of past misfortune receded in the rearview mirror of my dream come true.

Scenes with Timothy Cavendish

View Quote Timothy Cavendish: Er, Perhap-perhaps... er, we could moot a provisional sum...as a basis for on-going negotiation.
The Hogginses: Okeydokey. What sum we gonna moot? Fifty K will do for starters.
Timothy Cavendish: Fifty sounds reasonable.
The Hogginses: Tomorrow afternoon.
Timothy Cavendish: Tomorrow afternoon?
The Hogginses: Cash, no bollocks, no checks. Old fashioned money.
Timothy Cavendish: Gentlemen... The Law says…
The Hogginses: The Law?! What the law do for Felix fockin' Finch?

Other characters in Cloud Atlas (2012): Zachry · Robert Frobisher · Sonmi~451 · Adam Ewing · Autua · Luisa Rey · Abbess · Vyvyan Ayrs · Henry Goose · Isaac Sachs · Meronym · Mr. Meeks · Haskell Moore · Timothy Cavendish and Yoona~939