Eragon Bromsson Quotes

“If any honor existed in war, he concluded, it was in fighting to protect others from harm.”

“I’ll fight when needed, revel when there’s occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes … but I will not let anyone use me against my will.”

″‘How terrible,’ said Eragon, ‘to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you.‘”

“Pure logic can lead you to conclusions that are ethically wrong, whereas if you are moral and righteous, that will ensure that you don’t act shamefully.”

“I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.”

“It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar.”

“Eragon looked back at him, confused. ‘I don’t understand.’ ‘Of course you don’t,’ said Brom impatiently. ‘That’s why I’m teaching you and not the other way around.‘”

“That’s the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.”

“They may fight with us, but they don’t fight for us.”

″‘With all your customs,’ Eragon risked saying, ‘it seems as though you’ve only made it easier to offend people.‘”

“It’s amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this book survives, his ideas live.”

“Wise? No, I’ve just learned how to think.”

“Even we, who were boys but a short while ago, cannot escape the inexorable progress of time. So the generations pass, and soon it will be our turn to send our children out into the land to do the work that needs to be done.”

“When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side that pains me every time I move until I can pluck it out.”

“I know what we do is right but right doesn’t always mean easy.”

“However, my path is not so easy as that. Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another—and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast—the question remains: should I?”

“Why does everything have to be so hard?” . . . “Because,” said Saphira, “everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten.”