“You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.”

“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.”

“Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.”

“You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.”

“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.”

“A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.”