Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

by Christopher Paolini

It finally explained how rocks had continued to appear in their fields in Palancar Valley, even after the soil had been combed clean each spring. They grew!

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 never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done—or would do—something means that you should too. It’s lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind.