When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.

besides, how can you cheat a cheater?

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?