Cressida Cowell Quotes
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You cannot fight time itself, slay the minutes and hours with your blade, wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.
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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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And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
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I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.
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But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.
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Growing up happens so quick sometimes, that it catches us by surprise.
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“Uh-oh," thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. "This person wants to kill me."
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The world broke open like a big white egg.
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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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After Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn’t”
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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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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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Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in, even against those you love, and that can be harder than you think.
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Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.
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If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end
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The Supper is still singing.
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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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The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?
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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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If you're going to start a new life, you might as well start it NOW.
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You were not my first love, Stoick the Vast," said Valhallarama. "But you are my last…
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“He says he comes in peace," said Hiccup "He's still going to kill us, though.
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I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with a mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.