The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.

It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.

Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.

Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?