Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.

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

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

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.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.