Eldest Quotes

“Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Los cantos de los muertos son los lamentos de los vivos.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“By pursuing that which you love the most. When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. A lesson for you. You’ll face the same dilemma one day, if you live long enough….”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“In a way, he welcomed those limitations, for if he were perfect, what would be left for him to accomplish?”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“We are made imperfect and must guard against our flaws lest they destroy us.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“always so; those closest to the heart cause the most pain. Thou will have no dowry from me, snake,”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Alanna.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“I was as mute as a rock lizard?”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“CONVERGENCE”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Orik”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“land”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“agreed.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“THE MAW OF THE OCEAN The obsidian seas heaved underneath the Dragon Wing, propelling the ship high in the air. There it teetered on the precipitous crest of a foam-capped swell before pitching forward and racing down the face of the wave into the black trough below. Billows of stinging mist”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“me.…”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“I suppose I won’t see you for a while, so farewell, best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Islanzadí”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Master.” For several minutes, no one spoke. Eragon tried to guess what the elf was thinking, but could glean no information from his masklike visage. Finally, Oromis stirred. “Were you, perchance, given a trinket of some kind in Tarnag, Eragon?”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“As it turned out, Clovis was absent from the docks. After getting directions, it took them a half hour to walk to his house on the other side of Narda, where they found Clovis planting iris bulbs along the path to his front door. He was a stout man with sunburned cheeks and a salt-and-pepper beard. An additional hour passed before they could convince the mariner that they really were interested in his barges, despite the season, and then troop back to the sheds, which he unlocked to reveal three identical barges, the Merrybell, Edeline, and Red Boar.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Menoa tree,”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“bottle,”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Eragon—a fifteen-year-old farmboy—is shocked when a polished blue stone appears before him in the range of mountains known as the Spine. Eragon takes the stone to the farm where he lives with his uncle, Garrow, and his cousin, Roran. Garrow and his late wife, Marian, have raised Eragon. Nothing is known of his father; his mother, Selena, was Garrow’s sister and has not been seen since Eragon’s birth.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Eragon and Saphira,”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Eragon?”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“tongue”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“elda?”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Eragon mounted Saphira,”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Crags of Tel’naeír,”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“When humans arrived in Alagaësia, they too were added to this elite order. After many years of peace, the monstrous and warlike Urgals killed the dragon of a young human Rider named Galbatorix. Driven mad by the loss and by his elders’ refusal to provide him with another dragon, Galbatorix set out to topple the Riders.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“two dragons”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“eagerness of Saphira’s”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest