Cressida Cowell Quotes
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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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The mighty bosoms of Big-Boobied Bertha had killed many a Warrior in mortal combat.
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There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more. There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.
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There were dragons when I was a boy.
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It is a lot easier to be brave when you know you have no alternative.
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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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However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!
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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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It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "If things aren't out to get you...
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The past has a way of catching up with you.
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Sometimes time cannot tick backwards. Sometimes you cannot put a dragon back in a forest, nor a witch back in a tree-trunk, nor the breath back into a friend when all the breath has gone.
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'You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.
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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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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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I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.
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Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???
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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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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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K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.
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You see, it was not only Hiccup who was growing up, it was the entire world around him - and when whole worlds grow up, that can be painful and difficult. Was it all worth the Archipelago in flames? I do not know, you decide.
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Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
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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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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.