Quotes From "Inheritance" By Christopher Paolini

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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. Christopher Paolini
If you don't make a few ememies now and then,...
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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 Christopher Paolini
Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail...
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Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident. Christopher Paolini
The future will be what it will, and fretting about...
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The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. Christopher Paolini
He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's...
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He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. Christopher Paolini
Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing,...
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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. Christopher Paolini
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I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good. Christopher Paolini
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Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. Christopher Paolini
When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is...
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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. Christopher Paolini
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Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken? Christopher Paolini
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Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative. Christopher Paolini
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In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep. Christopher Paolini
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I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference. Christopher Paolini
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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. Christopher Paolini
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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. Christopher Paolini
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Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey Christopher Paolini
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If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it. Christopher Paolini
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Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think? Christopher Paolini
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Learn to see what you are looking at. Christopher Paolini
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We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that. Christopher Paolini
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When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin. Christopher Paolini
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A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his glove. The insect was hideous: black and bulbous, with barbed legs and a massive skull-like head. Its carapace gleamed like oil. Christopher Paolini