“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
“All of a sudden I didn t fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I d known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.”
“There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.”
“How terrible, said Eragon, to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you. Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.”
“You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.”
“And now I am here, as alone as I ve ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it s suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.”
“I ve come home in love with loneliness”
“I learned much too late that what you called love was nothing but a desperate and irrational fear of a life lived alone.”
“So, this is how it s become? This is how I ve become? A walking contradiction? I m surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it s like I don t know what to do with it, I don t know how to be a normal person anymore.”
“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
“Everybody is a stranger, but that s the danger in going my own way.”
“Never give importance to anyone more than yourself, because once that person becomes important, you become nothing....”
“People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they d been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn t want to wake up from.”
“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I m present, am I here at all?”
“there s no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.”
“I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.”