Christopher Paolini Quotes

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And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.

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

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

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The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

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When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

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Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.

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

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It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

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When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

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

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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.

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She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dragon!" "And Morzan's son," he said. "Both of Morzan's sons." "Describe it how you will, it was such an improbable rescue, I occasionally think that I did go mad and that I've imagined everything since.

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

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

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

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She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead against her hard snout and held her as tightly as he could, her scales sharp against his fingers. Hot tears began to slide down his cheeks. 'Why do you cry?' she asked. 'Because... I'm lucky enough to be bonded with you.' 'Little one.

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

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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...

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Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

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Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of salt air, it affects them deeply and has inspired many of their lovliest songs. There is one that tells of this love, if you want to hear it.

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To Saphira, while trying to choose her name:
That's the problem I've been choosing male names. You are a she!

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He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

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I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

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

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The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

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

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Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it.

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I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

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It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

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

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