Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

Disguise ourselves as grass?" Swordtail suggested. "Disguise ourselves as shrubs! DISGUISE OURSELVES AS ELEPHANTS THAT'S IT LET'S DO IT.

Frog-faced blobs of camel spit?

Forget the stupid prophecy. This is the destiny I was supposed to have.

SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!

Well, THAT was not going to stand. NO, SIR. THIS time, there would MOST DEFINITELY BE CONSEQUENCES, FROG.

Everyone stop moving!" he bellowed. "Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!" "SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!" the chickens shrilled back.

You can do and say everything exactly the same as everyone else, but if there's one thing different about you, that's all they care about." "I assume so," Peril said. "I've never actually tried acting like other dragons." "Well, it doesn't work," he said. Something was glowing in his eyes, an old, old anger. "Trust me. You still end up banished from your own home.

The one that says 'Queen Wasp's top secret greenhouse keep out or I will dismember you and then kill you some more'?" Blue asked. "That's the one," Sundew said.

He never had smoke rising from his nostrils the way the dragons flying overhead did. He never sneezed out bursts of flame (although he did sneeze quite a lot for a while after his time in the river). He never even breathed heat, not even on the coldest nights when they both really needed it.

It's kind of awesome knowing I have something everyone needs. I could give it away to anyone, anytime I want." "Or," Swordtail observed, "you could set your enemies on fire anytime you want." Sundew pointed one claw at Swordtail. "You," she said, "are growing on me.

Had Queen Coral prepared a throne for her missing daughter, waiting all these years for her to come fill it? She

BLEH!" Bumblebee announced suddenly. She threw the tuber at Swordtail's head, bonking him on the snout. "NOMOBLEH! GIMMEEGO! EEEEEMEGO!" "Hey, ouch, you violent little larva," Swordtail yelped.

Let's go bother Clearsight!

Jump in the river' was Tsunami's solution for everything. Bored? Aching bones? Dry scales? Brain overstuffed with the history of the war? 'Jump in the river!

WHAT WAS THIS. WHY DID IT HURT SO MUCH. WHO COULD SHE SET ON FIRE TO MAKE IT STOP.

Cricket snuck a sideways peek at the guards. The one who'd looked over must have seen

But this new fear was like termites in her skull, much more constant and present and squirming through all of her thoughts.

You said, 'Hey, sparkling teeth, I totally love three of your claws but not the others, and I wish your nose was a herring so I could eat it, and also your wings sound like sharks snoring.

Turtle yelling "AAAH!" and leaping backward as the stick he'd poked her with burst into flames. Peril stretched, yawning. "Well, what did you think was going to happen?

Clay cared about his real brothers and sisters, too, although he'd only just met them. He felt instinctively like they were extensions of his own claws and wings. This was the family he'd always wanted.

ALL RIGHT, NIGHTWING, HERE'S A BLANK SCROLL. GO AHEAD AND TRY TO CONVINCE ME THAT YOU'RE A DRAGON WHO EVEN DESERVES TO LIVE, LET ALONE ONE I SHOULD WASTE MY TIME ON. I DO ENJOY BEING AMUSED.

Summary: Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission — find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and then stop her, and she is not sure if the persistent SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her will be a help or a hindrance. ISBN

She lifted her head, breathing in the wild sea air.

You big sap," he said. "And I can't even punch you to shut you up." "You could," she said. "That would be pretty funny for me.