I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon

The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

Into the sky to win or die.

Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back's against the wall.

When people feel doubt in their hearts, a certainty might be felt in an ice cream.

As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.