Christopher Paolini

Eragon: If I drank that much mead it would kill me!

Saphira: No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground.

Eragon: Define normal.

"Well, then... if you do, come tell me. I am most interested in this trader who pretends to know so much about dragons."

“To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.”

What wisdom can I give people that they haven’t already learned? What feats can I achieve that an army couldn’t do better? It’s insanity!

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end.

It’s overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion, a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen, I know, but always to someone else, always in some far-off place and time. But I found your egg, was tutored by a Rider, and dueled a Shade — those can't be the actions of the farm boy I am, or was. Something is changing me.

"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."

Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

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

Clear your mind of such thoughts. They cannot be answered and will make you no happier.