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101 " Follow me, reader, if you dare. Take my hand, for we can fly swifter than the Deadly Shadow; we can follow the sound of ticking teeth faster than they can, and trace the Hero back to where he lies, on the little isle of Hero’s End. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)
102 " But then," said Caliburn, "the adults are making such an almighty mess of things maybe we have to put our faith in the children, crazy and unrealistic and reckless though they are... "
― Cressida Cowell , Twice Magic (The Wizards of Once #2)
103 " It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance. "
104 " If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end. "
105 " Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)
106 " Imagine if you had spent the whole first part of your life trying to walk on your hands. The clumsiness of it, always falling over, always stumbling, always the last at everything. Imagine the joy of discovering that in fact you could walk on your feet after all. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Be a Pirate (How to Train Your Dragon, #2)
107 " I dream of an Heir who shall be a Dragon-Whisperer, a Swordfighter, a Man who talks with Monsters and who will harness the power of Thor's thunder itself... "
108 " Books are like dragons....if we do not believe in them, and read them, they will cease to exist. How, then, will we learn the language and understand the stories of the dear dead ghosts of the past? Save the Dragons. Speak Dragonese. Read a book. "
― Cressida Cowell
109 " Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Break a Dragon's Heart (How to Train Your Dragon, #8)
110 " History, you see, is like the interlocking wheels turning in a ticking-thing. Something unexpected happens, some sort of hiccup... the wheels are jogged... and then they set off again, beating out the time in a new pattern. "
111 " 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. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Speak Dragonese (How to Train Your Dragon, #3)
112 " How can you make a fresh start in a New World when you are carrying with you on your boat all the same problems, the same frustrations and inequalities of the Old World? "
113 " This is the problem with stories. Stories always mean something. The question is ... What exactly do they mean? "
114 " Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Train Your Dragon
115 " Let us in, let us in,' shrieked the wind. 'We're very, very hungry. "
116 " Isn't Fate artistic? "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Twist a Dragon's Tale (How to Train Your Dragon, #5)
117 " Hiccup had made leaps such as these all his life. Leaps of faith, leaps of hope, leaps out into the unknown. Hiccup had always trusted in his luck, in his faith that the universe was ultimately kindly, a Good Egg, as Stoick would put it, rather than a Bad Egg, and would reach out and save him.But this was more of a leap of despair. "
118 " Is the universe a Good Egg or a Bad Egg? "
119 " Me and the moon, the moon and meWhen all the world gives up on meWhen everyone thinks bad about me I still have the moon, it`s me and the moonIt`s always the moon and meSo I have to keep running, keep runningCan`t stop in case I bite someone Keep running, keep running I thought I was good and then I looked downMy shaggy coat, my wolfy pawsI`m bad as a snake and meaner than gritDon`t try to stop me `cause you will get bit Let me keep runningI`m running for the moon, up to the moonWhere I can be goodWhen all the world gives up on meWhen everyone thinks bad about me I still have the moon, it`s me and the moonMostly it`s me and the moon "
120 " 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. "