Top 380 Christopher Paolini Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Beware of losing your way, for you are one of the few who are truly free to choose their own fate. That freedom is a gift, but it is also a responsibility more binding than chains.”

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202. “Characters are born from necessity.”

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203. “Dari segala hal di dunia ini, yang tersulit adalah mengubah diri sendiri.”

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204. “Eragon doubted that he would ever like an Urgal, but the iron certitude of his prejudice only a few minutes before now seemed ignorant, and he could not retain it in good conscience.”

— Christopher Paolini

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

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206. “If only everyone could see what we have seen, perhaps there would be less fighting in the world. You cannot expect wolves to become sheep. No, but neither do the wolves have to be cruel to the sheep.”

— Christopher Paolini

207. “You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.”

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208. “Don’t defoul the air. It ill becomes you. – Oromis.”

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209. “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

210. “Avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

— Christopher Paolini

211. “So you weren’t just jealous? She licked the claw once more. Perhaps a little. Eragon.”

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212. “If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn’t, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn’t rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.”

— Christopher Paolini

213. “May good fortune rule over you, peace live in your heart, and the stars watch over you.”

— Christopher Paolini

214. “Sometimes you have to stand and fight. Sometimes running away isn’t an option.”

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215. “La gente ha la fastidiosa abitudine di ricordarsi le cose che non dovrebbe.”

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216. “I suggest starting with a cat; they have unusual personalities.”

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217. “Kalau kau tidak membuat musuh sekali-sekali, artinya kau pengecut – atau lebih buruk lagi – Angela.”

— Christopher Paolini

218. “You’re nothing but the yellow-bellied offspring of a canker-ridden bunter. You’re a bastard, you are, and an unlicked cub; a dung-splattered, tallow-faced rock-gnasher; a puking villain and a noxious toad; the runty, mewling spawn of a greasy sow. I wouldn’t give you my last crust if you were starving, or a drop of water if you were burning, or a beggar’s grave if you were dead. You have pus for marrow and fungus for brains, and you’re a scug-backed cheek-biter!”

— Christopher Paolini

219. “Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn – that was the closest any person might come to heaven.”

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220. “With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.”

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221. “Semua orang ingin makan, tapi tidak ingin dimakan.”

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222. “Do I look dead to you?!”

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223. “Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.”

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224. “A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his glove. The insect was hideous: black and bulbous, with barbed legs and a massive skull-like head. Its carapace gleamed like oil.”

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225. “No one can escape fates design.”

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226. “I contain more than my share of years. The memories of hundreds are mine. Life piled upon life: Loves, hates, battles, victories, defeats, lessons learned, mistakes made – all lies within my mind, whispering their wisdom into my ears.”

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227. “A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.”

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228. “Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. – Valdr.”

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229. “I’m the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn’t stop until it’s finished.”

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230. “Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?”

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231. “If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.”

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232. “The reward may be uncertain, but our doom is inevitable unless we try.”

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233. “Luka luka yang kita kumpulkan menandai kesalahan sekaligus keberhasilan kita.”

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234. “Even gods do not endure forever.”

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235. “A person’s mind is his last sanctuary. – Brom.”

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236. “Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.”

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237. “Your eyes are like inscrutable orbs!”

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238. “The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. I know, Eragon sighed, but it’s not easy. Of course not. Few things of worth are.”

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239. “What will be will be.”

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240. “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.”

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241. “He welcomed those limitations, for if he were perfect, what would be left for him to accomplish?”

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242. “Victory is victory, dead is dead, however it is achieved.”

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243. “You can’t break something and mend it a moment later with pretty words. Broken things stay broken. Wounds heal into scars, not skin.”

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244. “As Roran watched, the man’s arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-from the bowlike curve of his collarbones to the hollow saddle of his hips, where his stomach hung like an empty waterskin. His lips puckered and drew back farther than they were intended to over his yellow teeth, baring them in a grisly snarl, while his eyeballs deflated as if they were engorged ticks being squished empty of blood, and the surrounding flesh sank inward.”

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245. “In this, you must rely upon your own judgment. Listen closely to what your heart says and perhaps it will become clear how to win free of these treacherous downdrafts. In.”

— Christopher Paolini

246. “Ugh,” said Eragon, hefting his load.”

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247. “These leaves don’t need to steep long, so drink it quickly before it gets too strong.”

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248. “The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you.”

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249. “What are those?” he asked.”

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250. “All was still and quiet. It seemed as if a magician had placed an enchantment upon the earth and that everything in the world was bound in an eternal sleep and would remain frozen and unchanging forevermore underneath the watchful gaze of the twinkling stars.”

— Christopher Paolini