Top 100 Cressida Cowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.”

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52. “Worrying won’t help it turn up any sooner. And look!” continued the giant. “If you waste your time worrying, how will you have a moment to see how beautiful the world is?”

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53. “Let us in, let us in,′ shrieked the wind. ‘We’re very, very hungry.”

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54. “Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.”

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55. “Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn’t mean that ALL Magic is bad?”

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56. “Oh for Thor’s sake,′ said Camicazi in exasperation. ‘Have you not hung around with him for long enough to know that you never give up hope until you are presented with actual Hiccup skeleton, solemnly registered and verified by the Valkyrie Death Committee as completely authentic?”

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57. “Is the universe a Good Egg or a Bad Egg?”

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58. “I wish, I wish I wish’ wished Wish.”

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59. “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.”

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60. “Slowly, Gobber stood up. Carefully, he removed his helmet from his head, and placed it very gently on the chest of the dead Goliath.”

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61. “Betapapun kecilnya kita, kita harus memperjuangkan apa yang kita percayai. Bukan berjuang dengan kekuatan pedang atau kepalan tangan kita, tapi kekuatan otak dan pikiran dan mimpi kita.”

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62. “It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance.”

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63. “Courage what is within is more important than what is without.”

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64. “Imagine if you had spent the whole first part of your life trying to walk on your hands. The clumsiness of it, always falling over, always stumbling, always the last at everything. Imagine the joy of discovering that in fact you could walk on your feet after all.”

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65. “But then,” said Caliburn, “the adults are making such an almighty mess of things maybe we have to put our faith in the children, crazy and unrealistic and reckless though they are...”

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66. “Thank you for nothing, you stupid reptile.”

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67. “There are some Questions, some battles, some Hiccups that are worth losing a world for. And perhaps even when all ends in disaster, you cannot do the wrong thing, if you do it out of love.”

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68. “It’s only paranoia,” whispered the Wodensfang, “If things aren’t out to get you...”

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69. “The Supper is still singing.”

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70. “Sometimes time cannot tick backwards. Sometimes you cannot put a dragon back in a forest, nor a witch back in a tree-trunk, nor the breath back into a friend when all the breath has gone.”

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71. “Uh-oh,” thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. “This person wants to kill me.”

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72. “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.”

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73. “Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.”

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74. “Follow me, reader, if you dare. Take my hand, for we can fly swifter than the Deadly Shadow; we can follow the sound of ticking teeth faster than they can, and trace the Hero back to where he lies, on the little isle of Hero’s End.”

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75. “He says he comes in peace,” said Hiccup “He’s still going to kill us, though.”

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76. “I dream of an Heir who shall be a Dragon-Whisperer, a Swordfighter, a Man who talks with Monsters and who will harness the power of Thor’s thunder itself...”

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77. “If I was living in a happier place,” said Eggingarde, “I might tell stories with happier endings.”

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78. “Stories come from somewhere,” said the witch. “The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.”

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79. “And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.”

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80. “You see, it was not only Hiccup who was growing up, it was the entire world around him – and when whole worlds grow up, that can be painful and difficult. Was it all worth the Archipelago in flames? I do not know, you decide.”

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81. “You remember what I said, way way way back at the start of Hiccup’s adventures, how this would be the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way? Now you can begin to see exactly how hard the way has been.”

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82. “I promise,′ said Alvin, ’word of a Treacherous.”

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83. “ALL children are spectacularly gifted and learning should be for everyone!”

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84. “I would say, I’ll meet you in Valhalla,” replied Hiccup through gritted teeth. “But I don’t think you’ll be going there.”

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85. “A mark is just a symbol, and symbols can change.”

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86. “History is a ghost story.”

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87. “I love you Hiccup, although my stiff lips will not let me make the kind words I hear other mothers speaking... I cannot change or regret the wandering Warrior I am. But by Thor’s thunder, I can fight for you, with all my Warrior heart, and this is one thing that I truly excel at.”

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88. “They’re kissing!” said Xar in disgust. “YUCKY!” said Squeezjoos, making a face. “Perdita!” cried Xar. “This is an emergency! This is a total, star-crossing, trouser-fraying, hair-pulling, Witch-infested disaster! They’re kissing! Make them stop! Bring them DOWN!”

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89. “But sometimes it isn’t the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.”

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90. “When a young rabbit spots a hawk circling above, it may never have seen such a creature before- but there is some ancestral memory that tells it to be afraid, to leap in great, panicky bounds to the safety of the burrow.”

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91. “Bodkin was feeling surprisingly gloomy for now it was all over – he was a hero no more – just an ordinary assistant body guard. It had been one stolen day, one glorious 24-hours where he could ride and fight beside a princess just as if he were her equal and a proper warrior himself.”

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92. “The world broke open like a big white egg.”

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93. “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 a supper for worms one day. We’re all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”

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94. “A little girl was sitting beside him, with huge, doomy eyes, a bear suit with all the buttons done up in the wrong buttonholes, and very dark, straggly hair that stuck straight out of her head at odd angles. She seem to read his mind. “Shh,” said the little girl. A lot of her teeth had recently fallen out and she was very serious for such a small person. “We’re not allowed to talk about the Lost. It’s bad for morale.”

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95. “How can you make a fresh start in a new world when you are carrying with you on your boat all the same problems, the same frustrations and inequalities of the old world.”

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96. “Keep hoping, keep guessing, keep dreaming.”

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97. “The first seeds of doubt about all that she had been told about Magic creatures were sown in Wish’s mind when she looked up at the giant’s kid face...”

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98. “Witches’ feet make no footprint. Witches’ bodies make no shadows. But they make the trees, the land, the moss, A little colder as they pass.”

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99. “We don’t exist, We’re only mist, And that was just the wind that hissed.”

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100. “Growing up happens so quick sometimes, that it catches us by surprise.”

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