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The thing about grown ups is ...

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic.

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Always sailing, sailing, sail...

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

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That is a terrible plan." "Hi...

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

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For a Hero cannot triumph all...

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

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Sometimes it is only a True F...

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

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Attention spans are changing....

Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

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But how can we know that drag...

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

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However small we are, we shou...

However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

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But then I have always been s...

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

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Oh, for Thor's sake..." said ...

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

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The past haunts the present i...

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

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Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing...

Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.

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The past is another land, and...

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?

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A Chief must show no fear, no...

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.

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Books were despised by the Vi...

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

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Sometimes a King has to do te...

Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

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GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ...

GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?

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Twelve days north of Hopeless...

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

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The Hero cares not for a wild...

The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.

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There's no such thing as im-P...

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

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