Christopher Paolini Quotes

page 3

“Pain is pain. It needs no description.”

“What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.”

“Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces”

“Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.”

“There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die.”

“Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.”

“If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm”

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

“Why?' - Nasuada
'You know why' - Murtagh”

“Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.”

“Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.”

“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”

“Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”

“The best remedy for what ails me is being with you here under the sun.”

“Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?”

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

“It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.”

“Even the donkeys were quiet.”

“Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.”

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

“The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart….”

“Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway…”

“Change is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”

“You must learn to see what you are looking at.”

“It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar”

“But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness…”

“They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.”

“I cannot forgive, but I understand.”

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

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

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

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

“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!”

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

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

“War was a catalog of madness.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Characters are born from necessity.”

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

“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”