Christopher Paolini: Trending quotes

“It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.”

Source: Eragon

“May your swords stay sharp -Brom”

Variant: I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.
Source: Eragon

“I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.”

Source: Eragon

“Do I look dead to you?!”

Source: Eragon

“Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.”

Eragon

“Characters are born from necessity.”

Galbatorix
Inheritance (2011)

“I don’t know how else to teach you what you need to learn except by showing you your mistakes over and over again until you stop making them.”

Eldest (2005)

“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.”

Arya
Inheritance (2011)

“Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.”

Inheritance (2011)

“You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.”

Oromis
Eldest (2005)

““I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.’”

Eragon and Arya
Inheritance (2011)

“War was a catalog of madness.”

Galbatorix
Inheritance (2011)

“I am not ready. But when will we ever be ready?”

Inheritance (2011)

“No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.”

Inheritance (2011)

“Well, I suppose I won't see you for a while. So farewell, good luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat ear wax, and look on the bright side of life!”

King Orrin
Eldest (2005)

“Then I guess we have no choice but to go forward. When have we ever had any choice but to go forward?”

Angela bidding Eragon goodbye before he leaves for Ellesméra
Eldest (2005)

“I am not who I was, but I know who I am.”

Eragon, on entering the Vault of Souls
Inheritance (2011)

“So tell me, is it true that men have ten toes, as is said?”

Eragon, on discovering his true name
Inheritance (2011)

“You of all people should know that everything in this world must be paid for, whether in gold, time, or blood.”

Shrrgnien
Eldest (2005)