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
Cressida Cowell
Born place: in Central London, The United Kingdom
Born date April 15, 1966
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“When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled.
If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Call of Cthulhu
“Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Six Years
“Interpreting the Bible without training is a bit like finding a specific address in a foreign city with neither map nor knowledge of the language. You might stumble upon the right answer, but in the meantime you've put yourself at the mercy of every ignoramus in town, with no way of telling the savant from the fool.”
― Laurie R. King, quote from A Monstrous Regiment of Women
“Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.”
― Scott McCloud, quote from Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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