Quotes from Christopher Paolini

Vive el presente, recuerda el pasado y no temas el futuro, porque no existe, ni existirá jamás. Sólo existe el ahora.

I was in fractures before. I am in fractures now. But the pieces still form the same broken picture.

You worry about a crack in the floor while the whole mountain is about to come down on us!

Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done--or would do--something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?

A weapon is a tool, and if it is beautiful, then it is beautiful because it is useful. A sword that could not fulfill its function would be ugly to my eyes no matter how fair its shape, not even if it were adorned with the finest jewels and the most intricate engraving.

On its own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well, which brings us back to the one protection we have against demagogues, tricksters, and the madness of crowds, and our surest guide through the uncertain shoals of life: clear and reasoned thinking. Logic will never fail you, unless you're unaware of—or deliberately ignore—the consequences of your deeds.

Pay no heed to your enemies' laugh. They won't be able to once you lob off their heads.

What is possible is subjective. It's a matter of perspective.

The way of the warrior is the way of knowing. If that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. Pain and frustration will be your only reward if you try.

Do you think I enjoy this? My life has been threatened from the day I was born! All of my waking hours have been spent avoiding danger in one form or another. And sleep never comes easily because I always worry if I'll live to see the dawn. If there ever was a time I felt secure, it must have been in my mother's womb, though I wasn't safe even there! You don't understand - if you lived with this fear, you would have learned the same lesson I did: Do not take chances. Murtagh

Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?

But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situation. Use those to shape your creation and you will produce something unique. Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

Ã…Å¡wiadomo?? tego, co ciÄ™ spotyka, sprawi mi ból niezale?nie od tego, gdzie bÄ™dÄ™. (…) Wiesz, ?e gdybym mogÅ'a, poprosiÅ'abym, aby bat spadÅ' raczej na moje ciaÅ'o. - A ty wiesz – ucaÅ'owaÅ' jÄ… w oba policzki – ?e nie pozwoliÅ'bym ci zaj?? mego miejsca.

A moment later, in an even fainter voice, he whispered, Do not mourn me

Elva just stared, a wise conversational technique that I recommend in a great many situations.

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.

Clear your mind of such thoughts. They cannot be answered and will make you no happier.

The reward may be uncertain, but our doom is inevitable unless we try.

Have you ever considered the fact that everything we are originates from the remnants of stars that once exploded?" Jorrus said, "Vita ex pulvis." "We are made from the dust of dead stars.

It is always thus. The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.

They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.

Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.

Sailing down from the underside of the firelit clouds was a small ship of grass

Finding one's place in the world is never easy. Have courage and be true to who you are. Remember, those who dare to be different are Often the ones who change the world.