To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

by Christopher Paolini

“Everyone messes up. How you deal with it is what determines who you are.”

Violence is a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. And its use should be as carefully calibrated as … as the cuts of a surgeon’s scalpel.”

This I learned, meatbag, this and nothing more: when air, food, and shelter are assured, only two things matter. Work and companionship. To be alone and without purpose is to be the living dead.”