Cressida Cowell · 241 pages
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“There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.
Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“Who is to say that your friend's life is worth more than a Dragon's?' said One Eye, who was taking up most of the deck.
'It's worth more to me,' said Hiccup. 'Because I didn't know the Doomfang personally.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“Ibland är det bara nära vänner som kan förstå vad vi försöker få sagt. Nån som vi ofta har varit tillsammans med och som lyssnar noga på vad det är som vi försöker säga, och som försöker förstå (s. 220).”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse.
You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“My poison is creeping through his body.
My strong venom is killing his heart.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup,' snorted Old Wrinkly, 'only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imaginations... and I used to think of you as an imaginative boy. Give up, if you want to... but I used to think of you as the sort of boy who would NEVER give up, however bad things looked.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“The world broke open like a big white egg.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!”
― Laurence Sterne, quote from A Sentimental Journey
“Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you,”
― August Wilson, quote from Fences
“R u ration yet?"
"What language is that?"
"R U AWAKE"
"Much to my extreme dismay. The sun is no friend to my fragile complexion."
"Poor baby. Come to my room asap."
"It's too early to proposition me, Ellie."
"GET OVER HERE?"
"So frisky. Give me a minute to get some clothes on. Or should I not...?”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, quote from Shadows in the Silence
“Jesus, that master of the universe never goes away, does he?’
‘What the hell do you expect?’ he said, his voice no longer mellow or casual or weary in his mildly contemptuous way, but suddenly razor-sharp.
‘You think I’m going to change ? You think that hot sex with you is going to alter my life? Burn away thirty-two fucking years of encoded distrust and the poisonous shadow…”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from All He Needs
“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”
― Mandy Hale, quote from The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
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