Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces.
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.
Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter.
Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.
I’m the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn’t stop until it’s finished.
A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there’s not a blasted thing I can do about it.
I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.
What will happen will happen and I won’t waste my time worrying.
I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I’ve always been very grateful for.
These books are my friends, my companions.
Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.
I’m afraid I’ve degenerated into a bibliophile.
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf.
And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.
There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die.
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.
What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to to choose an organ why not pick a gallbladder or a thymus gland instead? Much more interesting than a liver. Or what about chopped t-.