You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis

If you wish to be happy, Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change

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

Come, kiss me sweet, and then let us return to bed, for I am tired, and I would sleep.

Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.

No matter how careful we are, if we live long enough, eventually one of us will die. It is not a happy thought, but it is the truth. Such is the way of the world.

Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.

To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.

Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.

When we've got the puck, they can't score.

Now life is imitating art.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.