Cressida Cowell Quotes
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Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???
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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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“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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“Wodensfang, you're paranoid," said Hiccup, yawning. "It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "if things aren't out to get you...
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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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Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
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I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.
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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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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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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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It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "If things aren't out to get 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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But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.
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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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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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You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
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Well, suffering swordfish," exclaimed Fishlegs. "Hiccup is LEFTHANDED.
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K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.
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The past has a way of catching up with you.
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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 stories. Stories always mean something. The question is ... What exactly do they mean?
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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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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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Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?