„We are about to change history, said Saphira.We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.Ah, but what a glorious flight!(Eragon to Saphira)“

— Christopher 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“
— Christopher Paolini
„America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.“
— Barack Obama
„He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?“
— James Joyce
„If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.“
— Margaret Atwood
„How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.“
— Hermann Hesse
„When you throw a rock into the water, it will speed on the fastest course to the bottom of the water. This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal, a resolution.“
— Hermann Hesse
„Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant… it is always painful“
— Jodi Picoult
„If you wish to be happy, Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change“
— Christopher Paolini
„I know how unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves.“
— Will Durant