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Christopher James Paolini is an American author. He is the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr and Inheritance. He currently lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he wrote his first book.

✵ 17. November 1983
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Christopher Paolini Quotes

“Death is part of who we are. It guides
us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“If he fancied her anymore,' Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, 'I'd be trying to kiss Arya myself.'

'Saphira!' Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think.
-Angela the Herbalist”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“I think it would dismay them to know what it takes to feed you. Not to mention that you could empty their cellars of beer and wine in a single night.' Eragon said. Saphira sniffed.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“You cannot miss what you have never had.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Opening line
Source: Eldest (2005)

“They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Murtagh, in parting words to Eragon
Source: Inheritance (2011)
Context: When you teach them—teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what is right.

“Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said.
Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.”

Christopher Paolini

“It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.”

Christopher Paolini

“How terrible," said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.”

Christopher Paolini

“Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'…
'And I won't give up.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!
- Angela to Eragon”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“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.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“We are about to change history, said Saphira.
We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.
Ah, but what a glorious flight!
(Eragon to Saphira)”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Rhunon
Source: Eldest (2005)

“A good compromise leaves everyone angry.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“Too late. It's hatched.”

Christopher Paolini

“Talking with her is always…'suggested Saphira.
'Exactly.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“HERE LIES BROM
Who was
A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira
Son of Holcomb and Nelda
Beloved of Selena
Father of Eragon Shadeslayer
Founder of the Varden
And Bane of the Forsworn.
May his name live on in glory.
Stydja unin mo'ranr”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“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)”

Christopher Paolini

Source: Eragon & Eldest

“Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle.
For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“I have to admit, that's a remarkable bruise. You should be proud; it's quite a feat to get injured in the manner you did and in that… particular… place.”

Christopher Paolini

“He's acting as foolish as a kitten… but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.”

Christopher Paolini

“What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!'
With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

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

“He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“Now I remember why I hate eating sheep. Horrible, fluffy things that give me hair balls and indigestion. ( Saphira from the Eragon Series)”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.”

Christopher Paolini

Source: Eragon & Eldest

“Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I… see… you."
A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“Some troubles no one else should have to endure, especially not those you love.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

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

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“You've seen things through my eyes.”

Christopher Paolini