How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
Cressida Cowell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“But sometimes the bravest thing a Hero has to do is not fighting monsters and cheating death and witches. It is facing the consequences of his own actions.”
“The past never really leaves us. And now I am an old, old man. I hover over my childhood self, as if I were a dead mother, and I am anxious for Hiccup's future because I already know it, and I want to protect the boy from the pain. But I am happy too because I know the future is a curious mixture of joy and sadness. So suddenly I throw away my fear, and I no longer shout "Stop!" I am shouting something slightly different now. Walk on, Hiccup! Have Courage! Walk on to Tomorrow... And I will meet you there at Hero's End...”
“Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.”
“Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act, and every bad, every friend we make, and every enemy. Everything is connected.”
“If I was living in a happier place," said Eggingarde, "I might tell stories with happier endings.”
“The past has a way of catching up with you.”
“Sometimes our little human splashings are not enough. However hard we try, however strong our heroic human wills (and us humans have such a capacity, such a heroic capacity for believing that the impossible might be possible), sometimes our ridiculously puny human arms are too weak. Sometimes the world is just too big for us, the hurricane too wild, the sea so huge, that it wears out even the bravest of hearts, the strongest of wills.”
“Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...”
“You were not my first love, Stoick the Vast," said Valhallarama. "But you are my last…”
“Wodensfang, you're paranoid," said Hiccup, yawning. "It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "if things aren't out to get you...”
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