Quotes from Christopher Paolini

Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose. Eragon: But what can I do? Saphira: The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you.

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.

Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to loose.

If a dragon has already transferred their consciousness to their heart of hearts, then they will die a true death.

The true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

Then were the seeds of madness planted.

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.

You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

No dejes que la desaprobación de los demás dicte tus actos.

I'm glad to have known you, oh Queen of Flowers. You are a prickly and problematic person, but life is more interesting with you around.

A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

Your troubles will always bve my troubles,so long as were married.

No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way.

I agree that is it 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 cause by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

Everyone messes up. How you deal with it is what determines who you are.

May the stars watch over you.

let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not

Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn—that was the closest any person might come to heaven.

I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and things that other people have created but that I use to express my individualism.

But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky.

Was a broad but shallow education superior to one that was narrow but deep?

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

Ningún cazador del cielo debe acabar su vida como presa. Vale más morir volando que atrapado en tierra.

You can't break something and mend it a moment later with pretty words. Broken things stay broken. Wounds heal into scars, not skin.