Cressida Cowell · 214 pages
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“Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“Thank you for nothing, you stupid reptile.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“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.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“There were dragons when I was a boy.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“Being frightened is not the same as being a coward.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“CHAPTER THE FIRST
(AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better,)
THE END.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“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.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“It is a lot easier to be brave when you know you have no alternative.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“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.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“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.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“… DE NINCS ITTHON HAL.
– Rendben – felelte Fogatlan. – Eszem macskát.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“Let us in, let us in,' shrieked the wind. 'We're very, very hungry.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
“There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more.
There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell
Born place: in Central London, The United Kingdom
Born date April 15, 1966
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“Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?’ enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over.
‘One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full of short easy ones, Sophie,’ says Sugar. ‘It saves time and paper.’ Seeing that the child is unconvinced, she adds, ‘If books were written in such a way that every person, no matter how young, could understand everything in them, they would be enormously long books. Would you wish to read a book that was a thousand pages long, Sophie?’
Sophie answers without hesitation.
‘I would read a thousand million pages, Miss, if all the words were words I could understand.”
― Michel Faber, quote from The Crimson Petal and the White
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from The Twits
“A vampire private investigator?” he repeated. “You’re putting me on, right?” “I know you have vampire hit men, so why wouldn’t you have vampire private investigators, too?” she flared back. “I can’t just run an ad with Nathanial’s description on it titled ‘Have you seen this soul welsher?”
― Jeaniene Frost, quote from First Drop of Crimson
“I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.”
― Amy Tan, quote from The Hundred Secret Senses
“Reformation of the world begins with reformation of self. We cannot hope to influence others in the direction of moral virtue unless we live lives of virtue. The example of our virtuous living will carry a greater influence than will all the preaching, postulating, and theorizing in which we might indulge. We cannot expect to lift others unless we are standing on higher ground.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, quote from Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
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