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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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If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end
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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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“Let us in, let us in,' shrieked the wind. 'We're very, very hungry.
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Ah, being a parent is so much harder than it looks. And just because you are old, does not mean that you do not make mistakes. So that is the story of the Great Jailbreak of Gormincrag.
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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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Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.
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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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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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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
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Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act, and every bad, every friend we make, and every enemy. Everything is connected.
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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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Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.
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History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
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My poison is creeping through his body. My strong venom is killing his heart.
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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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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Sneered Snotlout.
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Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn't mean that ALL Magic is bad?
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Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.
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In my beginning is my end....there were Dragons when I was a boy.
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Blood just draws more blood.
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Tomorrow. There was something hopeful, even about the word.
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We all make mistakes. We all need second chances and even third, fourth, and fifth chances.
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