The best remedy for what ails me is being with you here under the sun.

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

You cannot miss what you have never had.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.