“I am not who I was, but I know who I am.”
Eragon, on discovering his true name
Inheritance (2011)
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Interview to Cosmopolitan (2016)
“Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 21
Context: “I saw myself,” Taran answered. “In the time I watched, I saw strength – and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other.
“But this, too, I saw,” he went on. “Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”
“Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know.”
“If I Am,” p. 7
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Recircling”
"Talking Clothes" (p.109)
So This Is Depravity (1980)
“I know who and what I am. I am The Executioner, and I don't date Vampires. I kill them.”
Final line
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Guilty Pleasures (1993)
Dancing Nancies
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)