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" The Hooligans had never intended to settle on Berk in the first place. Berk was not the most comfortable, the most luxurious, the most civilised place to live in the world. It was a funny, boggy, shaggy little heap of heather and rock, where the wind buffeted so strongly that you might as well be on the sea in a ship, and when it wasn't raining it was often snowing.
But Berk was where they had grown up, where they had met their sweethearts and brought up their children, and when it came down to it, they found that they didn't want to leave. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Break a Dragon's Heart (How to Train Your Dragon, #8)
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" We’re not there, that’s just air, that glimpse of wing you saw right there That dying cow, that wasn’t us, so don’t you cuss, and don’t you dare Cross-the-sprites-and-curse-their-spite-and-make-your-hand-a-stony-fist You can’t punch us, we don’t exist, we’re only mist, And that was just the wind that hissed. We don’t care, and we weren’t there, and for a dare, we would never snap that chair And-leave-it-looking-like-it-was-perfectly-all-right-and-wait-for-someone-big-and-fat-and-old-to-put-their-lardy-fat-behind-on-it-and-SMOOSH-BANG-HA-HA-HA-!-SMASH!!!!!-the-entire-thing-shatters-into-tiny-smithereens-and-then-they-land-upon-the-stony-floor-and-break-their-jaw-and-fuss-and-roar-and-cry-until-they-cry-no-more… "
― Cressida Cowell , The Wizards of Once (The Wizards of Once, #1)
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" The thing is, we are all, in a sense, supper. Walking, talking, breathing suppers, that’s what we are. Take you, for instance. YOU are about to be eaten by ME, so that makes you supper. That’s obvious. But even a murderous carnivore like myself will be a supper for worms one day. We’re all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time. "
― Cressida Cowell , How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)
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" Sometimes, when I lie awake at night,” said Wish, with big eyes, “I think I can hear, beyond the Wall, the sound of giants howling, as if they’re being attacked by Witches… Don’t you hear that, Bodkin? Are we supposed to just stay here, safe behind our Wall, and let that carry on? "
― Cressida Cowell , Twice Magic (The Wizards of Once #2)
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" Even through his terror, Hiccup was blown away with excitement at seeing so many books in one place at one time. He had scribbled away in notebooks himself, of course, but because books were banned by order of The Thing, the only proper book he had ever really held was that copy of 'How to Train Your Dragon', which Toothless had incinerated. And he hadn't been very impressed by that particular book. Not enough words, in his opinion. But here, it was like entering a cave full of treasure. "WOW," breathed Hiccup, "if you stayed here long enough you really could find the answer to everything... "
― Cressida Cowell , A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons (How to Train Your Dragon, #6)