Christopher Paolini Quotes

With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.

Better to die than to live in fear.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

"I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking."

Atra esterni' ono thelduin
Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr
Un du evari'nya ono varda

(May good fortune rule over you
peace live in your heart
may the stars watch over you)

You cannot miss what you have never had.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

Several hundred feet ahead, Saphira and Thorn tussled, two giants in the night.

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.

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

"Let go of your worries and focus
only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true .
I know," — Glaedr

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.

Names are powerful things; you should be careful whom you share yours with. You never know when a person might turn your name against you.