Christopher Paolini, Inheritance Quotes
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.
He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.
He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.
If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!- Angela to Eragon
Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.
We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that.
When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin.
