I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

Better to die than to live in fear.

I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.