Brisingr Quotes

“Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon, Eldest & Brisingr

“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”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“Barzûl!”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dragon!"
"And Morzan's son," he said. "Both of Morzan's sons."
"Describe it how you will, it was such an improbable rescue, I occasionally think that I did go mad and that I've imagined everything since.”
― Christopher Paolini

“Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.”
― Christopher paolini

“Pain is pain. It needs no description.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“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.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“A true warrior,” she said, “does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“besides, how can you cheat a cheater?”
― christopher paolini

“Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.”
― Christopher Paolini Valdr

“Islanzadi sighed, and suddenly appeared tired. “Ormomis may have been your proper teacher, but you have proved yourself to be Brom’s heir, not Oromis’s. Brom is the only person who managed to entangle himself in as many predicaments as you. Like him, you seem compelled to find the deepest patch of quicksand and then dive into it.”
Eragon hid a smile, pleased by the comparison.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“The true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“O que tiver de acontecer, acontece, e não vou perder tempo de vida a preocupar-me com isso. A infelicidade vai sempre ao encontro de quem a espera. O truque é encontrar felicidade nos breves intervalos entre os desastres.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr