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Perhaps what Murtagh enjoyed was watching another person shoulder the same terrible burden he had carried his whole life.
Four against two are only good odds if you’re among the four.”
Can you still be human if you have no mortal end?”
The bumblebee was so vibrant, so alive, and so beautiful, its presence renewed Eragon’s will to survive. A world that contained a creature as amazing as that bumblebee was a world he wanted to live in.
The monotonous music of his running had annoyed him at first, but before long, it lulled him into a trancelike state where he did not think, but moved.
The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.”
The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself.
When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn’t being wounded yourself, it’s having to watch those you care about being hurt.
As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.
It is never likely that you will succeed in ferreting out the secrets of the past.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf,
“Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?”
Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
If you wish to be happy, Eragon, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change.”
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.”
“A weapon is a tool, and if it is beautiful, then it is beautiful because it is useful.
Also, for those who understood the reference to a “lonely god” when Eragon and Arya are sitting around the campfire, my only excuse is that the Doctor can travel everywhere, even alternate realities. Hey, I’m a fan too!
