Quotes from

Eragon

By Christopher Paolini

“Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.”

“They were tools, nothing more.”

“Prophecies of revenge, spoken in a wretched language only he knew, rolled from his tongue.”

“He quenched the fires in his path but left the rest to burn.”

“Nature had never polished a stone as smooth as this one.”

“Every time he thought they had surrendered their secrets, something happened to upset his understanding of them—like the stone’s appearance.”

“The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not…but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories. That which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented, yet treasure it, for without you it does not exist. I give you now a memory that has been forgotten, hidden in the dreamy haze that lies behind us.”

“But weep…for it could not last.”

“Alas, sorrow was conceived that day.”

“Then were the seeds of madness planted.”

“Denied his hope, Galbatorix, through the twisted mirror of his madness, came to believe it was the Riders’ fault his dragon had died. Night after night he brooded on that and formulated a plan to exact revenge.”