Christopher Paolini - Eldest (2005)

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There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it's not better to just remain quiet. With all your customs, Eragon risked saying, it seems as though you've only made it easier to offend people. A smile flickered across her lips. Perhaps.

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On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

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When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

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But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness...

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Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

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Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion, he trembled. He did not want to leave, but he knew he must. 'Stay with me-' Her gaze darted up. 'I cannot.' '...stay with me until the first curve in the river.' She hesitated, then nodded.

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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?

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Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

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For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

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I have a new name for pain.
What's that?
The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape.
A good name, then.

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A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.

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To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. - Arya

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Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

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Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

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Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

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M doing my best" "no, this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

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The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no?... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.

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

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

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Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

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He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.

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Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.

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A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

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I have to admit, that's a remarkable bruise. You should be proud; it's quite a feat to get injured in the manner you did and in that...particular...place.

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

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Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den. Saphira

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As he was about to leave, she said, "Murtagh." He paused and turned to regard her. She hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage and said, "Why?" She though he understood her meaning: Why her? Why save her, and now why try to rescue her? She had guessed at the answer, but she wanted to hear him say it. He stared at her for the longest while, and then, in a low, hard voice, he said, "You know why.

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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!

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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

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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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