Christopher Paolini - Inheritance (2011)

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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.

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

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'Then I guess we have no choice but to go forward. When have we ever had any choice but to go forward?'

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

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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

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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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It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

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Change is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.

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But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.

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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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'Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.'

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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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'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.'

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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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'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 is right.'

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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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I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.'

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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

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'You of all people should know that everything in this world must be paid for, whether in gold, time, or blood.'

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He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

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You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.

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'I don't know how else to teach you what you need to learn except by showing you your mistakes over and over again until you stop making them.'

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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.

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The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

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