Christopher Paolini Quotes

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?

"It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe." -Brom

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

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

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.

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.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

The oldest fears were the most powerful. If there were gods, he thought for sure that the first and greatest — and evilest — would be the god of darkness. Light required effort. Light was a struggle. But the dark was easy, and it had existed before all else and would be there to envelop the universe in its smothering cloak when the last dim stars guttered out at the end of time.

Strive for wisdom! Or at least a decrease in idiocy.

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

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

The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can’t change.” Falconi paused, his eyes hard and glittering. “Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn’t do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you’ll never be able to fully recover.

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