“Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death”
“Thank you for nothing, you stupid reptile.”
“I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.”
“Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"
"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.”
“There were dragons when I was a boy.”
“Being frightened is not the same as being a coward.”
“CHAPTER THE FIRST
(AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better,)
THE END.”
“February turned into March and Hiccup was still thinking. A few flowers made the mistake of appearing and were immediately blasted out of existence by a couple of hard frosts that had kept themselves back for this very purpose.”
“You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.”
“It is a lot easier to be brave when you know you have no alternative.”
“Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow.”
“The thing is, we are all, in a sense, supper. Walking, talking, breathing suppers, that's what we are. Take you, for instance. YOU are about to be eaten by ME, so that makes you supper. That's obvious. But even a murderous carnivore like myself will be supper for worms one day. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”
“Toothless? Hey, it’s me, bud. It’s me. It’s me, I’m right here, bud. Come back to me. It wasn’t your fault, bud. They… made you do it. You’d never hurt him. You’d never hurt me! Please, you.. are my best friend, bud… My best friend.”
“… DE NINCS ITTHON HAL.
– Rendben – felelte Fogatlan. – Eszem macskát.”
“Let us in, let us in,' shrieked the wind. 'We're very, very hungry.”
“There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more.
There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.”
“Remember-doubts may check pride, but too much doubt will keep you from doing what must be done.”
“And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.”
“With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.”
“result: every description of events in space involves the use of a rigid body to which such events have to be referred. The resulting relationship takes for granted that the laws of Euclidean geometry hold for ‘distances’, the ‘distance’ being represented physically by means of the convention of two marks on a rigid body.”
“To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".”
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