When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin.

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.

If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.

Starfall in the sky as a result of anybody’s Fall here below?

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.