The Purpose Of Life Is Not To

Show Respect For Those In Power, But Do Not Follow Them Blindly.

Characters Are Born From Necessity.

It Is An Overactive Imagination That Turns Men Into Cowards, Not A Surfeit Of Fear, As Many Believe

I Cannot Prove That Gods Do Not Exist. Nor Can I Prove That The World And Everything In It Was Not Created By An Entity Or Entities In The Distant Past. But I Can Tell You That In The Millennia We Elves Have Studied Nature, We Have Never Witnessed An Instance Where The Rules That Govern The World Have Been Broken. That Is, We Have Never Seen A Miracle. Many Events Have Defied Our Ability To Explain, But We Are Convinced That We Failed Because We Are Still Woefully Ignorant About The Universe And Not Because A Deity Altered The Workings Of Nature.

...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