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The first seeds of doubt about all that she had been told about Magic creatures were sown in Wish's mind when she looked up at the giant's kid 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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After Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn’t”
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What you g-g-gonna do, tough guy? Tickle Toothless to d-d-death?
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If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end
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He looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him, and I saw myself."1,080 rount"
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However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don't mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords. That has always been the problem with us Vikings. I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams.
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Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way.
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What is within is more important than what is without.
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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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That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?
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We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.
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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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Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.
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... in that quiet gentle voice, as sweetly pure as the stab of an icicle.
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The world broke open like a big white egg.
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The mighty bosoms of Big-Boobied Bertha had killed many a Warrior in mortal combat.
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I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.
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There were dragons when I was a boy.
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Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.
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The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
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And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next is was calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.
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You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?
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OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!
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