# Cressida Cowell

- Quotes: 31
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell

## Books

- [How to Train Your Dragon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon.md) — 31 quotes

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> If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup.
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> But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.

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> "Once I loved truly and my heart paid the price.
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> Now let me love truly, Thor, let me love TWICE."

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> Isn't fate artistic?

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> Thank Thor you live in a time and a place where people have the right to live and think and write and read their books in peace, and there are no need for heroes anymore...
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> And spare a thought for those who have not been so lucky.

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> "There are some Questions, some battles, some Hiccups that are worth losing a world for.
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> "And perhaps when it all ends in disaster, you cannot do the wrong thing, if you do it out of love."

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> Toothless was saying carelessly to Stormfly, "Oh, yes, T-t-toothless not surprised my Master turned out to be King because everybody says Toothless of royal blood...Not a Common or Garden at all, but a Toothless D-a-daydream, who are a bit like M-m-monstrous Nightmares only cuter..."
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> "Hmm," said Stormfly thoughtfully, looking him over to see if he was turning purple, which is what Mood Dragons do when they lie.

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> Hiccup's heart was beating fast in anxiety and sadness, and he suddenly realized he could actually HEAR it beating.Tick tock tick tock tick tock went his heart.How very peculiar, thought Hiccup.

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> There is nothing more defenseless than a defenseless human.
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> No teeth, no talons, no thunderbolts, no fire.

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> Human hearts are not made of stone.
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> Thank Thor.
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> They can break, and heal, and beat again.

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> Great things are only made out of love and out of pain.

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> Stop expecting other people to save you.
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> YOU are the Hero.
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> Save yourself.
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> (If you want another answer, try another woman.)
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> Your loving mother,
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> Valhallarama

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> "Look!" said Barbara the Barbarian. "My black cat has chosen Hiccup! Do you think this could be a sign too?"
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> And indeed, Barbara's black cat had jumped off Barbara's head, and was curling around Hiccup's legs, purring.

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