💬 Quotes

"Every person has a life that is a story, and the story is all we have left when the person is gone."

"I have spent my life moving toward you, and I have nothing to show for it but the dust of the road."

"I am a rider, but I am also a man, and the two are not always the same."

"True power is not the ability to force others to do your will, but the ability to master your own."

"It is not the weight of the sword that tires the arm, but the weight of the fear in one's heart."

"To be a leader is to be a servant to those you lead, for their lives are the price of your decisions."

"The past is a phantom, Eragon. It cannot hurt you unless you let it hold your hand."

"Names are the threads that bind the world together; to know a name is to hold the leash of existence."

"What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to alter the course of events?"

"I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really—one has to ask oneself—what dignity is there in that?"

"You look at this massive grey house, and you think, for a moment, that you can understand the life that was lived here. But then, it slips away."

"We are all of us tired of the past. We all feel it's time we stopped dwelling on our disappointments and looked to the future."

"The evening is the best part of the day. You have done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it."

"Whatever I did, he always beat me. It was a rivalry that I had constructed in my own mind, and it turned out to be the driving force of my existence at Devon."

"Fear seized my stomach like a cramp. I didn't care what I said to him, I didn't even care if he heard me. I just had to get it out."

"Two rights don't equal a left."

"The matter with human beans is that they are absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they are actually seeing it right in front of their very schnozzles."

"I is reading books in secret to myself. I is a devourer of books."

"What I mean and what I say is two different things."

"Dreams is very mysterious things. They is floating around in the air like little wisps of clouds."