Cressida Cowell Quotes
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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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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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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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After Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn’t”
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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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But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.
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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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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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I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.
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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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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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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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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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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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“He says he comes in peace," said Hiccup "He's still going to kill us, though.
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Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.
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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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The Supper is still singing.
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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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Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn't mean that ALL Magic is bad?
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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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"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.