Christopher Paolini Quotes: 30

• Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

  Eragon

• Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

  Eldest

• Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

• Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

• People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

  Eragon

• Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't,"said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

  Eragon

• Without fear there cannot be courage.

• Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

  Eldest

• Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

  Eragon, Eldest & Brisingr

• Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

  Brisingr

• Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

  Eldest

• Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you gone crazy? They'll..."Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. "They won't be able to do a thing." "Exactly,"said Saphira. "We can inflict lots of damage from a safe height." "Let's drop rocks on them!

• If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change"~Oromis to eragon ,Brisingr~618

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

  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

  Brisingr

• Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen."he continued at a slower pace, "of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64

  Eragon

• 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.

  Inheritance

• How terrible,"said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.

  Eldest

• 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.

  Brisingr

• Barzûl!

  Eldest

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

  Inheritance

• 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.

  Eldest

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

  Inheritance

• In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes.To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies.Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark,Else upon your mind they'll place a mark;Do not listen to the shadows of the deep,Else they haunt you even when you sleep.

  Inheritance

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

  Inheritance

• 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.

  Inheritance

• I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.

  Inheritance

• A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

  Brisingr

• As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

  Brisingr

• The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand if one studied it closely enough.

  Inheritance