Pain is pain. It needs no description.

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.

We need to know who we are and then stand strong

When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!

Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!

The only person that deserves to ask for miracles is someone who is qualified.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.