The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

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.

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn’t worth any more than his, but he’s the one who’s buried, while I get to enjoy at least...

Barzûl!

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.

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...

Eragon went to see the dragon for the first time since it had spoken to him. He approached apprehensively, aware now that it was an equal.”Eragon.””Is that all you can say?” he snapped.”Yes.”His eyes widened...

I’m afraid I’ve degenerated into a bibliophile.

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

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.

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...

As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture,...

Have I ever told you how glad I am we’re not enemies? Eragon asked.No, but it’s very sweet of you.

But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter’s sky.

Into the sky to win or die.

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. […] It’s a...

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.

Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will...

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...

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed. (Brom, Eragon)

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...