“Lonesome night. Babbits bawlin', wind bitin' the bone. Wind like this...” – Zachry, Cloud Atlas ... Movie Quotes Database

Zachry

Lonesome night. Babbits bawlin', wind bitin' the bone. Wind like this full of voices. Ancestry howlin' at you, yibberin' stories. All voices tied up into one. One voice different, one voice whisperin' out there, spyin' from the dark. That fangy devil Ol' Georgie hisself. Now you hear up close and I'll yarn you about the first time we met, eye to eye.

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