A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.
Christopher PaoliniIt is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.
Christopher PaoliniThe trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.
Christopher PaoliniIt's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
Christopher PaoliniEngaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.
Christopher Paolini