Quotes from Christopher Paolini

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

Kvetha, Shur'tugal Greetings, Dragon Rider

From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.

The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

It goes as it does,Argetlam.You cannot hurry perfection.

Don't eat earwax avoid roasted cabbage and look on the bright side of life -Angela

Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

m doing my best no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above.

What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to to choose an organ why not pick a gallbladder or a thymus gland instead? Much more interesting than a liver. Or what about chopped t-

Congratulations, you've just been promoted!

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. Saphira

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

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

There's no such thing as safety. Only degrees of risk.

A pox on all meads!

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more , you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.

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.

Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative.

I have questions, he said. - Then you have more wisdom than most.

besides, how can you cheat a cheater?