How to Be a Pirate Quotes

“The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“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.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup.
But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“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...”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“after Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn’t”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate

“Hiccup found everyday life rather a trial, but was always good in a crisis.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Be a Pirate