Quotes from Christopher Paolini

Tu ne te décourages pas si facilement ! Tant mieux pour toi : seuls les hommes résolus trouvent leur identité.

her father's side—had been prone to saying, which was that ". . . the meaning of life, Kira, is moving things from point a to point b. That's it. That's all we really do." "But what about when we talk?" she had said, not entirely understanding. "That's just moving an idea from in here," and he tapped her on the forehead, "out into the real world.

By our actions we increase entropy of the Universe. By our entropy, we seek salvation from the coming dark.

May your path always lead to knowledge, Prisoner. Knowledge to freedom.

He quenched the fires in his path but left the rest to burn.

I crawled through space and time, a worm inching through a labyrinth built by the dreams of a mad god. This I learned, meatbag, this and nothing more: when air, food, and shelter are assured, only two things matter. Work and companionship. To be alone and without purpose is to be the living dead.

Because we can better ourselves. Should we give in to our impulses to kill or hurt any who anger us? To take whatever we want from those are weaker and in general to disregard the feelings of others? We are made imperfect and must guard against our flaws lest they destroy us.

Hear me now. The Lord of Empty Spaces protect us as we venture forth to fight our foes. Guide our hands—and our thoughts—and guide our weapons that we may work our will upon these perversions of peace. Let daring be our shield and righteous fury be our sword, and may our enemies flee at the sight of those who defend the defenseless, and may we stand unbowed and unbroken in the face of evil. Today is the Day of Wrath, and we are the instruments of our species' retribution.

I'd rather struggle and fail on my own than be coddled as a slave.

Ach , life is a strange cruel journey sometimes

It was a strange universe. The more she learned, the stranger it seemed, and she doubted she would ever find the answers to all her questions.

The storm that batters, batters all. None are spared. Not you, not I, not the stars in the sky. We bind our cloaks and bend our heads and focus on our lives. But the storm, it never breaks, never fades.

You'll have to learn to live with that fact and the fact is that I don't hand out descriptions of my life to anyone who asks!

You are prickly and problematic person, but life is more interesting with you around.

As she had learned, sometimes you had to make a choice, any choice, even when it wasn't clear which path was the right one.

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

Do not dwell on things you cannot change - Saphira

Ne pas se faire quelques ennemis de temps en temps, c'est de la lâcheté ou de l'hypocrisie.

Then you ought to know you can't offload responsibility on someone else. You have to be able to take care of yourself when shit goes down.

Pain is pain,' she said. 'It needs no description.

As Stephen King says, "No one gets it right the first time." We all edit, we all revise—what's the saying in the military? "Embrace the suck.

But I remember when I read The Way of Kings, there were two things that struck me, like from a technical standpoint—it felt like you tackled a fantasy world almost as if you were writing science fiction.

It was a weak sensation, though: faint as faded regret.

Los cantos de los muertos son el lamento de los vivos.