Christopher Paolini Berühmte Zitate
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“Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.”
Quelle: Eragon, Eldest & Brisingr
“It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school — we had our own little world.”
As quoted in "Authors of the month: Christopher Paolini and Flavia Bujor" by Dina Rabinovtich in The Guardian (31 March 2004) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/mar/31/booksforchildrenandteenagers
Kontext: 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.
“Those whom we love are often the most alien to us.”
Oromis
Quelle: Eldest (2005)
“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”
Variante: The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.
Quelle: Brisingr
“Avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”
Quelle: Eldest
“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.”
Quelle: Brisingr
“I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies”
Quelle: Brisingr
“You cannot miss what you have never had.”
Quelle: Eldest
“The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.”
Opening line
Quelle: Eldest (2005)
“They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.”
Quelle: Eldest
Murtagh, in parting words to Eragon
Quelle: Inheritance (2011)
Kontext: When you teach them—teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what is right.
“Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.”
Quelle: Brisingr
“How terrible," said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."”
Quelle: Eldest