Quotes from How to Be a Pirate

Cressida Cowell ·  211 pages

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“The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate


“K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate


“OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate


“Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate


“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.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate



“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...”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate


“after Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn’t”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate


“I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate


“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, quote from How to Be a Pirate


About the author

Cressida Cowell
Born place: in Central London, The United Kingdom
Born date April 15, 1966
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