...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

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.

I’m not familiar with this word you were repeating before…‘cojones’, was it?”I blushed as Dominick patted me on the back. “Way to introduce him to the vernacular, Palta.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

Motivation, basically getting people to be happy at work, everybody - everybody benefits.

People talk to you and they try to convince you that they like what they do just because it sucks less than what they used to do... which sucked a lot.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.