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The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

Christopher Paolini

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Christopher Paolini
Age: 40
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
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Christopher James Paolini
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...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from Eragon
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After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira
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I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.
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Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
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The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.
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The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.
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It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.
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...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.
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It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.
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Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces
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Better to die than to live in fear.
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With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.
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If he fancied her anymore, Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, I'd be trying to kiss Arya myself. Saphira! Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.
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