Brisingr Quotes

• Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

  Christopher Paolini

  Shapes, Who We Are, Madness

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1451, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

  Christopher Paolini

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1032, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

  Christopher Paolini

  Waiting, Finding Happiness, Gaps

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

  Christopher Paolini

  Worry, Waste, Wasting My Time

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• A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

  Christopher Paolini

  Men, Hours, Knows

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1603, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

  Christopher Paolini

  Finding Happiness, Gaps, Disaster

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1603, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

  Christopher Paolini

  Attitude, Laughing, Enemy

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1769, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Christopher Paolini

  Evil, Poison, Might

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr Omnibus”, p.747, Random House

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• If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change" ~Oromis to eragon ,Brisingr~618

  Christopher Paolini

  Thinking, Wish, Able

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

  Christopher Paolini

  Mind, Monsters

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1644, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

  Christopher Paolini

  Responsibility, Religion, Together

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1979, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Christopher Paolini

  Flaws, Eragon, Behavior

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• Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fire, Blue, Flames

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• Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion, he trembled. He did not want to leave, but he knew he must. 'Stay with me-' Her gaze darted up. 'I cannot.' '...stay with me until the first curve in the river.' She hesitated, then nodded.

  Christopher Paolini

  Curves, Rivers, Want

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Inheritance: Book Four”, p.868, Random House

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• The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

  Christopher Paolini

  Needs, Purpose, Done

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• The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.

  Christopher Paolini

  Doors, Evil, Balance

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1661, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

  Christopher Paolini

  Mean, Easy, Knows

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• As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod

  Christopher Paolini

  Trying, Atrocities, Path

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• besides, how can you cheat a cheater?

  Christopher Paolini

  Cheater, Cheat

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1615, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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