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1 " It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. "
― Christopher Paolini , Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)
2 " If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!- Angela to Eragon "
3 " Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident. "
4 " The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. "
5 " He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. "
6 " Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was. "
7 " I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good. "
8 " Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. "
9 " When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right. "
10 " Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken? "
11 " Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative. "
12 " I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference. "
13 " On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss. "
14 " He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women. "
15 " Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey "
16 " If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it. "
17 " Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think? "
18 " Learn to see what you are looking at. "
19 " We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that. "
20 " When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin. "