Characters are born from necessity.

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.

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