Christopher Paolini Quotes
born 1983 United States
Christopher Paolini (born November 17, 1983) is an American writer of fantasy fiction, best known as being the author of the Inheritance cycle.
Also known as: Brisingr, Eldest, Eldest (inheritance)
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Better to die than to live in fear.
Inheritance (2011)
‘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.’
Inheritance (2011)
I won't tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.
Eldest (2005)
‘I am not ready. But when will we ever be ready?’
Inheritance (2011)
It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school — we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.
Shall we dance, friend of my heart?
Eldest (2005)
‘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.’
Inheritance (2011)
‘I cannot forgive, but I understand.’
Inheritance (2011)
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.
Inheritance (2011)
With a flourish, she completed the latest sentence she had been working on. He tilted his head and sidled closer in order to decipher the glyphs she had inscribed. They read: The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.
Brisingr (2008)