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.

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

From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

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