How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury Quotes

“Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“I have never cared for Castles
or a Crown that grips too tight,
Let the night sky be my starry roof
and the moon my only light,
My Heart was born a Hero,
my storm-bound sword won't rest,
I left the Harbour long ago
on a Never-ending Quest,
I am off to the horizon,
where the wild wind blows the foam,
Come get lost with me, love,
and the sea shall be our home!”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“Once, when I was a child, I dreamed that Grimbeard the Ghastly, on the deck of his ship The Endless Journey, threw the sword Endeavor up into the air. Up and up it spun, through the inky blackness, across the cavernous span of a hundred years, until, entirely of its own accord, my own left hand sprang out of space and stars and never-ending time and caught it. Now that I am so very old, I am dreaming once again. And in my dream, I am the one throwing the sword. It is spinning now, in the black starlit waters of my dream, right above your head, dear reader. A sword that may look second-best, and secondhand, but but carries the memories of a thousand lost fights, a history lesson in itself. Reach out, and catch it by the hilt. Swear by its name, Endeavor, to do your utmost to make the world a better place than when you arrived in it. For look! There will be dragons all around you, as camouflaged as a Stealth Dragon.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“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.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“One, the search for the fang-free dragon taught me that fear and intimidation might not be the best way to train dragons.
"Two, the sword: that sometimes best is second-best.
"Three, the shield: that sometimes freedom must be fought for.
"Four, the ticking-thing: that when you fight for your friend, you are also fighting for yourself.
"Five, the ruby heart’s stone: that love never dies.
"Six, the arrow from the land-that-does-not-exist: that you must make things right in the Old World before you go looking for the New, and sometimes the things that you are looking for are right at home.
"Seven, the key-that-opens-all-locks: that accidents happen for a reason.
"Eight, the Throne: that power can corrupt.
"Nine, the Crown: that you have to keep on trying even though you are beaten before you even star.
"And Ten, the dragon Jewel," finished Hiccup. "You need to know what it is to be a slave, before you can be a King.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“Tomorrow. There was something hopeful, even about the word.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“Once we love, we cannot forget, though the flesh hardens around the wound that once bled, though it be buried in one hundred years of chains and twisted round with the cruel growing thorns of the choking forest. A door opened in the Dragon’s mind that the Dragon had been trying to keep closed for many long years so that he could carry out his Rebellion. When it finally opened, it did so with the same sudden force with which Hiccup’s memory had returned in the ruins of Grimbeard’s Castle. And now it had opened, even just a crack, it was impossible to shut it once again.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“One, the search for the fang-free dragon taught me that fear and intimidation might not be the best way to train dragons. Two, the sword: that sometimes best is second-best. Three, the shield: that sometimes freedom must be fought for. Four, the ticking-thing: that when you fight for your friend, you are also fighting for yourself. Five, the ruby heart’s stone: that love never dies. Six, the arrow from the land-that-does-not-exist: that you must make things right in the Old World before you go looking for the New, and sometimes the things that you are looking for are right at home. Seven, the key-that-opens-all-locks: that accidents happen for a reason. Eight, the Throne: that power can corrupt. Nine, the Crown: that you have to keep on trying even though you are beaten before you even star. And Ten, the dragon Jewel," finished Hiccup. "You need to know what it is to be a slave, before you can be a King.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“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.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“Hiccup the Second was gone forever, separated from the Dragon by an ocean of sky and time, and he could not come back to visit.
But still, somehow, a tiny part of him was here, in the raggedy, awkward shape of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third.
And the Dragon Furious loved him.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“Blood just draws more blood.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

“Wodensfang,”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon: How to Fight a Dragon's Fury: Book 12

“Are we to say goodbye forever to the magic, and the dreaming and the flying of our childhoods?”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon's Fury: How to Train Your Dragon, Book 12