Cressida Cowell
Quotes
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.
A hero cannot triumph all the time.
Sometimes he will be defeated, but how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
That was the moment Hiccup took on his destiny.
He lifted his drooping head.
'I will NEVER give up fighting you, witch, even though it is too late... Even though all is lost... Even though it is impossible... Never never never...'
The witch had failed again.
The mind is a strange universe.
Who says stories cannot bring things to life?
'I wish I could offer you a King who is greater than I am. I can't turn into someone else, I can only be me. But I have discovered that I too, am stronger than I thought I was. I think I can do this. I think I can be this King that the Dragonmarkers want me to be.'
"[...] And even though I am a Viking...
"I confess, I am afraid
"Are dragons never to sail through the skies again, on jewel-colored, airy wings, or light up world once more with the glory of their fiery breath?
"Are we to say good-bye forever to the magic, and the dreaming and the flying of our childhoods?
"I say NO!" cried Hiccup.
"There are some dragons that are monsters," admitted Valhallarama.
"But then there are also some humans who are monsters." (And at this point she paused and looked significantly at Alvin the Treacherous and the witch.)
"Who is to say that your friend's life is worth more than a Dragon's?" said One Eye...
"It's worth more to me," said Hiccup, "because I didn't know the the Doomsfang personally."
Sometimes it is only a true friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.
"Do not think that just because I have the soul of a soldier and cannot speak soft words that it was not hard for me or that because I left, I did not love." said Valhallarama.
