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

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

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

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

Your gift is what you were created to be

Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.