Top 55 Cressida Cowell Quotes
#1. 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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#2. That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?
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#3. But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
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#4. 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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#5. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...
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#6. CHAPTER THE FIRST
(AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to ...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better,)
THE END.
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#7. Always sailing, sailing, sailing ... never quite reaching.
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#8. My poison is creeping through his body.
My strong venom is killing his heart.
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#9. A Chief must show no fear, no worry ... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second ...
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#10. Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.
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#11. The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares.
The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. The only GOOD Roman is a DEAD Roman," said Camicazi.
Hiccup sighed. "That isn't true. I'm sure there are LOADS of good Romans. But all the good Romans are probably quietly minding their own business back in Rome.
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#15. Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???
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#16. Toothless crossed his eyes and made a gulping noise with his throat as if he was swallowing ...
"AAAAAAARGH!" screamed Hiccup.
Toothless spat Ziggerastica onto the floor.
"Only j-j-joking," he said.
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#17. 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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#18. But Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points, and he took the first five minutes to come up with "Hiccup copped it. SORRY," and the spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out.
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#19. Hiccup followed him carefully ... and fell over again.
"BRAVO!" clapped Alvin, to Hiccup's surprise.
"But I fell over again" said Hiccup.
"But with such STYLE," said Alvin. "You can't teach that, it's in the blood.
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#20. OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!
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#21. There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination
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#22. 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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#23. He says he comes in peace," said Hiccup "He's still going to kill us, though.
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#24. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.
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#25. 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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#26. Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
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#27. K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.
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#28. WARNING
Any Relationship to any historical fact WHATSOEVER is entirely coincidental. You have been WARNED
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#29. For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
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#30. The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
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#31. I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!
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#32. GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!
Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful ... thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?
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#33. Well, suffering swordfish," exclaimed Fishlegs. "Hiccup is LEFTHANDED.
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#34. Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
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#35. 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 it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.
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#36. 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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#37. But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.
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#38. He looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him, and I saw myself.1,080 rount
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#39. Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?
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#41. 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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#43. Courage what is within is more important than what is without.
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#44. What you g-g-gonna do, tough guy? Tickle Toothless to d-d-death?
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#45. 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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#46. February turned into March and Hiccup was still thinking. A few flowers made the mistake of appearing and were immediately blasted out of existence by a couple of hard frosts that had kept themselves back for this very purpose.
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#47. The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.
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#49. "MAKE RED YOUR CLAWS WITH HUMAN BLOOD ... OBLITERATE THE HUMAN FILTH ... "
"Ooh, that's a nice song," said the Hogfly, ever polite.
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#51. 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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#52. I was not a natural ... This is the story of becoming ... the Hard Way.
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#53. Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.
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#54. Because: 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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#55. The mighty bosoms of Big-Boobied Bertha had killed many a Warrior in mortal combat.
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