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“Huk fal rozbijających się o burty promu przypominał mężczyźnie charakterystyczne melodie szant .Jedna taka szczególnie utkwiła mu w pamięci, ulubiona Grzegorza. "Żegnajcie nam dziś Hiszpańskie dziewczyny" .”

“Kiedy człowiek jest młody, woli prostackie miesiące, pełnię sezonu. W miarę jak się starzeje, uczy się lubić to, co zawieszone między porami roku, miesiące, które nie potrafią się zdecydować. Może w ten sposób przyznaje, iż porządek rzeczy nie wydaje mu się już tak niezachwiany jak niegdyś. A może tylko chodzi o stwierdzenie, że woli się puste promy.”

“They are people who learn more from themselves than they can ever learn from others.”

“Jego ostatnią myślą było, że Brom byłby z niego dumny.”

“Terapia - to nie żadna sztuka; do czterdziestu lat wariat to dementia praceox: zimne kąpiele, brom i skopolamina. Powyżej czterdziestki - dementia senilis: skopolamina, brom i zimny tusz. No i szoki. To właściwie cała psychiatria.”

“TU LEŻY BROM
Który był Smoczym Jeźdźcem
A dla mnie
Drugim ojcem
Chwała jego imieniu.”

“When my parents weren’t watching the news, they were either waiting to watch the news or recovering from watching the news. The news confirmed their feeling that things were terrible everywhere, and there was nothing anyone could do about it apart from keep abreast of developments. I’ve avoided the news ever since.”

“Piłeś- odparła oskarżycielsko. Eragon zastanowił się chwilę i musiał się zgodzić, miała rację. Wyraźnie wyczuwał jej dezaprobatę, powiedziała jednak tylko : Rano nie będę ci zazdrościć. Nie-jękną Eragon- ale Brom będzie. Wypił dwa razy tyle co ja.”

“The monomyth is a single great circle of tales marking out each stage in the hero's life: from birth to death; then on again, through resurrection and rebirth.”

“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”

“Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.”

“The shows aren’t making people gay. They’re just making people realize it’s even . . . I don’t know, a possibility. It’s like we’re all brainwashed from the time we’re babies to think that we have to be straight. ”

“Chciał odrzucić wątpliwości i lęki i wiedzieć, że nieważne, jak straszny wydaje się czasem świat, życie to nie tylko zamęt. Pragnął wiedzieć na pewno, że to, kim jest, nie zniknie, jeśli miecz odrąbie mu głowę, i że pewnego dnia znów spotka się z Bromem, Garrowem i wszystkimi, których kochał i utracił. Przepełniała go rozpaczliwa tęsknota za nadzieją i pociechą. Oszołomiony, poczuł się niepewnie na powierzchni ziemi.”

“(...) I share almost ninety-nine per cent of my genes with a chimpanzee - and our longevity is virtually the same - but I don't think you have an inkling of how much more I comprehend, and yet I know I must tear myself away from it. For example, I have a good grasp of just how infinitely great outer space is and how it's divided into galaxies and clusters of galaxies, spirals and lone stars, and that there are healthy stars and febrile red giants, white dwarfs and neutron stars, planets ans asteroids. I know everything about the sun and moon, about the evolution of life on earth, about the Pharaohs and the Chinese dynasties, the countries of the world and their peoples as presently constituted, not to mention all the studying I've done on plants and animals, canals and lakes, rivers and mountain passes. Without even a pause for thought I can tell you the names of several hundred cities, I can tell you the names of nearly all the countries in the world, and I know the approximate populations of every one. I have a knowledge of the historical background of the different cultures, their religion and mythology, and to a certain extent also the history of their languages, in particular etymological relationships, especially within the Indo-European family of languages, but I can certainly reel off a goodly number of expressions from the Semitic language too, and the same from Chinese and Japanese, not to mention all the topographical and personal names I know. In addition, I'm acquainted with several hundred individuals personally, and just from my own small country I could, at the drop of a hat, supply you with several thousand names of loving fellow countrymen whom I know something about - fairly extensive biographical knowledge in some cases. And I needn't confine myself to Norwegians, we're living more and more in a global village, and soon the village square will cover the entire galaxy. On another level, there are all the people I'm genuinely fond of, although it isn't just people one gets attached to, but places as well: just think of the all the places I know like the back of my hand, and where I can tell if someone's gone chopped down a bush or moved a stone. Then there are books, especially all those that have taught me so much about the biosphere and outer space, but also literary works, and through them all the imaginary people whose lives I've come to know and who, at times, have meant a great deal to me. And then I couldn't live without music, and I'm very eclectic, everything from folk music and Renaissance music to Schonberg and Penderecki, but I have to admit, and this has a bearing on the very perspective we're trying to gain, I have to admit to having a particular penchant for romantic music, and this, don't forget, can also be found amongst the works of Bach and Gluck, not to mention Albinoni. But romantic music has existed in every age, and even Plato warned against it because he believed that melancholy could actually weaken the state, and it's patently clear when you get to Puccini and Mahler that music has become a direct expression of what I'm trying to get you to comprehend, that life is too short and that the way human beings are fashioned means they must take leave of far too much. If you've heard Mahler's Abschied from Das Lied von the Erde you'll know what I mean. Hopefully you'll have understood that it's the farewell itself I'm referring to, the actual leave- taking, and that this takes place in the self-same organ where everything I'm saying goodbye to is stored.”