# Quote — Christopher Paolini, Eragon

> "Do you think I enjoy this? My life has been threatened from the day I was born! All of my waking hours have been spent avoiding danger in one form or another. And sleep never comes easily because I always worry if I'll live to see the dawn. If there ever was a time I felt secure, it must have been in my mother's womb, though I wasn't safe even there! You don't understand - if you lived with this fear, you would have learned the same lesson I did: Do not take chances."

- Author: [Christopher Paolini](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini.md)
- Book: [Eragon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini/eragon.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eragon#Murtagh) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini/eragon/do-you-think

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> May your swords stay sharp.

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> Eragon: Thanks, again.

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> "May the coming years bring you great happiness."

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