Cressida Cowell Quotes
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The world broke open like a big white egg.
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“Uh-oh," thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. "This person wants to kill me."
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I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.
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I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.
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After Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn’t”
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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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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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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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The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
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Growing up happens so quick sometimes, that it catches us by surprise.
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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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If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end
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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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Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.
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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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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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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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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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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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“He says he comes in peace," said Hiccup "He's still going to kill us, though.
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The Supper is still singing.
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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.
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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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You were not my first love, Stoick the Vast," said Valhallarama. "But you are my last…