Cressida Cowell Quotes
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Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.
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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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You see how good and evil are twisted together? Like a golden dragon bracelet snaking brightly about a person's arm.
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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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I didn't mean to come here... And I didn't mean to stay... It's just where the sea wind blew me One accidental day...
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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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MAKE RED YOUR CLAWS WITH HUMAN BLOOD…OBLITERATE THE HUMAN FILTH…
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Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn't mean that ALL Magic is bad?
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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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I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.
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There were dragons when I was a boy.
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The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
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If I was living in a happier place," said Eggingarde, "I might tell stories with happier endings.
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"Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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The Supper is still singing.
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“Uh-oh," thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. "This person wants to kill me."
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Growing up happens so quick sometimes, that it catches us by surprise.
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It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance.
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Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...
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History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time
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Worrying won’t help it turn up any sooner. And look!” continued the giant. “If you waste your time worrying, how will you have a moment to see how beautiful the world is?
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Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.
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There are some Questions, some battles, some Hiccups that are worth losing a world for. And perhaps even when all ends in disaster, you cannot do the wrong thing, if you do it out of love.
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“He says he comes in peace," said Hiccup "He's still going to kill us, though.