We are about to change history, said Saphira.
We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.
Ah, but what a glorious flight!
(Eragon to Saphira)


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Barzûl!
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She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me an...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
How terrible," said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."
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CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
I think it would dismay them to know what it takes to feed you. Not to mention that you could empty ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to s...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Pain is pain. It needs no description.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Die puny human!
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagi...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more dete...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
If he fancied her anymore,' Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, 'I'd be trying to kiss Arya mysel...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Death is part of who we are. It guides
us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and th...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off."
I love you too." ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
He was rarely happy throughout his life but he was a good Rider and a good man.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Whether fate and destiny really exist, the only thing I can do is enjoy the present and live as hono...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
I suggest starting with a cat; they have unusual personalities.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
I wasn't confident at the end, not at all. The guys I was with are pretty rapid so I just wanted a g...
LUCA PAOLINI
A lot of guys tried to get away on the hills. It was better to go at a certain tempo to the top of t...
LUCA PAOLINI
The transition was rough at first. In college, we do not just have the one or two good players on th...
LAUREN PAOLINI
The footwork is different, the view of the court is different.
LAUREN PAOLINI
I love it here. There's so much to do around campus.
LAUREN PAOLINI
Ideas come from Ideas that originate from an Idea
ALAN A. PAOLINI
Your only limitation is your imagination.
ALAN A. PAOLINI
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national el...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We do...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage a...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
Accurst be he that first invented war.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Confess and be hanged.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
What feeds me destroys me.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
There is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up ...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle a...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER
It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER
I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-communit...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet the...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER
Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some pr...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER
You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER
We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER