Cressida Cowell Quotes
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Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow.
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You remember what I said, way way way back at the start of Hiccup’s adventures, how this would be the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way? Now you can begin to see exactly how hard the way has been.
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You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
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A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.
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It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "If things aren't out to get you...
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But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.
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Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
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Slowly, Gobber stood up. Carefully, he removed his helmet from his head, and placed it very gently on the chest of the dead Goliath.
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History, you see, is like the interlocking wheels turning in a ticking-thing. Something unexpected happens, some sort of hiccup... the wheels are jogged... and then they set off again, beating out the time in a new pattern.
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“I would say, I’ll meet you in Valhalla," replied Hiccup through gritted teeth. "But I don’t think you’ll be going there.
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But sometimes the bravest thing a Hero has to do is not fighting monsters and cheating death and witches. It is facing the consequences of his own actions.
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GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?
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Witches’ feet make no footprint. Witches’ bodies make no shadows. But they make the trees, the land, the moss, A little colder as they pass.
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Well, suffering swordfish," exclaimed Fishlegs. "Hiccup is LEFTHANDED.
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You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
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I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.
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K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.
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Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?
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How can you make a fresh start in a New World when you are carrying with you on your boat all the same problems, the same frustrations and inequalities of the Old World?
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The past has a way of catching up with you.
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If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup. But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.
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On the back of the Silver Phantom I have flown so high that his wing-tips seemed to touch the very moon itself…
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Drood Commander, watching Xar in the mirror. ‘He said: “Everything Open,”’ said Encanzo. The smug smile was instantly wiped off the Drood Commander’s face
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This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.