Inheritance Cycle Quotes

“Why does everything have to be so hard? [Eragon] wondered.

Because, said Saphira, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“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?”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.”
― Christopher Paolini Valdr

“It is always thus. The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.”
― Christopher Paolini, The Inheritance Cycle

“You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. - Brom”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.”
― ryan fitzpatrick, Fake Math: poems

“Pekerjaan laki-laki, atau pekerjaan perempuan, adalah pekerjaan yang harus diselesaikan - Roran”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Kau harus belajar [...] untuk melihat apa yang kau cari - Glaedr”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Kalau kau tidak membuat musuh sekali-sekali, artinya kau pengecut -- atau lebih buruk lagi - Angela”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Luka luka yang kita kumpulkan menandai kesalahan sekaligus keberhasilan kita”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Semua orang ingin makan, tapi tidak ingin dimakan”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Dari segala hal di dunia ini, yang tersulit adalah mengubah diri sendiri”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile!
What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!
There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work.”
― Solomon, Ecclesiastes, a New Tr. With Notes by J.N. Coleman

“This administrator of trade is the worst sort of bureaucrat. He abides by every rule, delights in making his own whenever it can inconvenience someone, and at the same time believes that he is doing good… I didn’t think I would ever meet a noble who wasn’t corrupt. Now that I have I find that I prefer them when they’re greedy bastards. - Brom”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“We don't need less kids, just more middle managers...”
― ryan fitzpatrick, Fake Math: poems

“Aku percaya bahwa kau memercayai apa yang kau ucapkan, tapi bukan berarti kata-katamu benar - Glaedr”
― Christopher Paolini

“Takdir punya selera humor yang kejam - Murtagh”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Ia tersadar bahwa hal yang dianggapnya luas ternyata hanya sebagian kecil dari sesuatu yang lebih luas lagi”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“Christina died of a stroke in the fall of 1971, at the age of sixty-one.
June watched the nurses take her mother's body away. Standing there in the hospital, June felt like she'd been caught in an undertow.
How had she ended up here?
One woman all alone, with four kids, and a restaurant she had never wanted.
The day after the funeral, June took the kids to school. She dropped Kit off at the elementary building and then drove Nina, Jay, and Hud to junior high.
When they pulled into the drop-off circle, Jay and Hud took off. But Nina turned back, put her hand on the door handle, and looked at her mother.
'Are you sure you're OK?' Nina asked. 'I could stay home. Help you at the restaurant.'
'No, honey,' June said, taking her daughter's hand. 'If you feel up for going to school, then that's where you should be.'
'OK,' Nina said. 'But if you need me, come get me.'
'How about we think of it the other way around?' June said, smiling. 'If you need me, have the office call me.'
Nina smiled. 'OK'
June felt herself about to cry and so she put her sunglasses over her eyes and pulled out of the parking lot. She drove, with the window down, to Pacific Fish. She pulled in and put on the parking brake. She took a deep breath. She got out of the car and stood there, staring up at the restaurant with a sense of all that she had inherited. It was hers now, whatever that meant.
She lit a cigarette.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“She abandoned here to dally with her sweet-tongued savage. I allowed this - an indulgence I have often regretted. So I will assuage that regret by bringing you back into the fold, Granddaughter. Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

“The Enefadeh are the reason we wear blood sigils, Lady Yeine. No one may pass the night in Sky without one. It isn't safe.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

“As Lord Dekarta said, Lady Yeine - all descendants of Shahar Arameri must serve. One way or another.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

“So be good," the priests would add, "or the Nightlord will get you.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

“On the one occassion that I risked a glance back, I saw the gentle glow of the hallway fade into a throat of black so deep looking that way hurt the eye. I did not look back again.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

“I especially like your face. You don't showc much emotion - is that a Darre thing or your mother's traning?- but when you di, all the world can read it.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

“It isn't your fault." Sieh sounded unhappy. "We just need to explain, and she'll understand.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

“I will laugh when you're dead," he said softly. The small hairs along my skin prickled, for his voice was a grown man's now, tenor malevolence. "I will claim your heart as a toy and kick it for a hundred years. And when I am finally free, I will hunt down all your descendants and make their children just like me.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

“I closed my eyes and traced my mother's face against my memory for the ten thousandth time.”
― N. K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods