“The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly”
“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.”
“But you never knew where the bombs would fall in the dark, so night bombing was even more frightening than daylight bombing. Let’s just say, it scared the living daylights out of us!”
“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”
“...we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.”
“If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.”