“I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together—the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired.”

“The Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.”

“Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces”

“Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel”

“The most precious thing I have to give is my time.”

“What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.”