Quotes from book

Brisingr

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

“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?”

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

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

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

“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”

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

“Pain is pain. It needs no description.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?”

“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.”

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

“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”