Christopher Paolini citations

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“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.”