If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon

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

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.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

Into the sky to win or die.

do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429

We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

The hardest thing about finding forgiveness is that you had to find it at all.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

I make records with an open mind, I always have.