Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

by Christopher Paolini

Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself.

philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?”

Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

The gods are fickle, and the only immortality we can count on is that which we win through our deeds.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.”

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.”

“Try though they might, no being escapes death forever,

the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.”