Christopher Paolini
Christopher Paolini
Christopher James Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr and Inheritance. He currently lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he wrote his first book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 November 1983
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
cost matter cherish
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.
quiet occasional function
No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.
character born
Characters are born from necessity.
moments revelations delusion
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.
love powerful heart
Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
anger mind poison
Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.
memories years may
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 in memories.
who-i-am knows
I am not who I was, but I know who I am.
warrior knowing use
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.
teaching men thinking
I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.
battle reeds triumphant
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
school kids interesting
It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.
dies
Better to die than to live in fear.
falling-in-love fate morbid
I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.