# Quote — Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon

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

- Author: [Cressida Cowell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell.md)
- Book: [How to Train Your Dragon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(novel_series)#How_to_be_a_Pirate_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/if-you-were

## More from this book

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/once-i-loved.md)

> Isn't fate artistic?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/isnt-fate-artistic.md)

> 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...
>
> And spare a thought for those who have not been so lucky.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/thank-thor-you.md)