Christopher Paolini
Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?Collection: Pain
...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "EragonCollection: Fate
May your swords stay sharp -BromCollection: May
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.Collection: Fighting
Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.Collection: Waiting
Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?Collection: Heart
The best remedy for what ails me is being with you here under the sun.Collection: Sun
As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ JeodCollection: Trying
Congratulations, you've just been promoted!Collection: Congratulations
How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous.... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - SaphiraCollection: Magic
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. - SaphiraCollection: Men
From now on, I promise I wil consult with you before I do anything you don't expect. Is that acceptable? Only if it involves weapons, magic, kings, or family members, she said. Or flowers. Or flowers, she agreed.Collection: Kings
It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.Collection: Dream
It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believeCollection: Believe
I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.Collection: Past
Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. - ValdrCollection: Earth
I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.Collection: Falling In Love
I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.Collection: Teaching
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!Collection: Battle
Too late. It's hatched.Collection: Too Late
Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.Collection: Long
From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.Collection: Eye
With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.Collection: Talons
I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and pastCollection: Past
do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429Collection: Worry
It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.Collection: Woe
One part brave, three parts fool!Collection: Brave
Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?Collection: Situation
Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do you like it?" "It's nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?" "Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn't mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters. Ferocious things, wild hamsters."Collection: Nice
For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys meCollection: Ocean
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.Collection: Enlightenment
Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.Collection: Revenge
I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.Collection: Matter
No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.Collection: Quiet
It’s like trying to herd a flock of geese,” said Orik. “They’re always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they’ll bite your hand first chance they get.Collection: Hands
Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.Collection: Tails
Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.Collection: Should Have
Your troubles will always bve my troubles,so long as were married.Collection: Long
It goes as it does,Argetlam.You cannot hurry perfection.Collection: Perfection
They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.Collection: Simple
They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.Collection: Fighting
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 HerbalistCollection: Thinking
Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.Collection: Dark
They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle.-EragonCollection: Uncles
For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.Collection: Simple
Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.Collection: Hair
Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.Collection: Perfect
Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.Collection: Luck
The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.Collection: Enemy