Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey

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.

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 you know is right.

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

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.

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

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.

If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!- Angela to Eragon

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.

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

Look at your eyes. You've got bigger bags than Louis Vuitton.

He would say things like, “But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Dinah had all the class.

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.