Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

One scruffy street dragon and one exiled prince. Plus a fierce little rainbow,

Winter thinks the mountains are going to eat him,

I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,

Are we — um, does this mean —

Is your job thinking?" Snowfall shouted, making him jump. "ARE YOU AN EXPERT THINKER? Did we accidentally assign you to scouting because we missed your GIANT AMAZING BRAIN and all the AMAZING THINKS it could have shared with us?! DOES IT SEEM LIKELY THAT YOUR THINKING WOULD INTEREST ME?

then come back here to build a home. And there would be dragonets, if she wanted them. Clearsight felt a sudden, dizzying rush of love for dragons who weren't even eggs yet: little Jewel, and whip-smart Tortoiseshell, and cuddly Orange (who names their dragonet Orange? Sunstreak, apparently. They might have to have some conversations about that plan), and Commodore, the king of giggles.

She spent the rest of the morning flying out into the desert, chasing down a desert fox (who escaped into a hole and was kind of too cute to eat anyway), and then catching a large white bird in midair and eating that instead. She also set fire to a tall cactus because it was giving her a superior look and she felt like it.

Mystery dragon! Hmmm. There's something different about you. Did you get your claws trimmed?" "Very funny," she said, baring her teeth at him. "You could have told me you were one of the dragonets," Deathbringer said. "I'd have asked for your autograph.

Queen Scarlet took the dragonets." "Yes," said Nautilus drily. "We gathered that much from how she's practically been standing on the tallest mountain shouting, 'I have the dragonets of destiny! They're all mine!

The dragons who like you now are the ones most likely to betray you. Believe me. I know.

Nowadays we only lose a few dragons a year to the carnivorous plants." "The what now?" Swordtail said, his voice rising an octave. "CARNIVOROUS

But friends didn't wipe other friends' memories.

She had a really odd expression on her face, as if the agony of the prophecy vision had suddenly popped and meerkats had come cartwheeling out of the cracked mountain instead of death.

Oh," Glory said, "well, there's a logical scientific explanation and seriously, right now you want to have this conversation?

What?" Kinkajou asked. "What? What? WHAT?

No, way. There is a tree? In a forest?

She sank down beside the nest and picked up a piece of broken eggshell. Oh,

The danger came from the white dragon. This was Father, some kind of partner to the dragon who cared. The newly hatched dragonet could hardly look at him without seeing a spiral of confusing flashes: pain, fury, screaming dragons, and blood, everywhere, blood. This white dragon had done something terrible that haunted him, and he might do worse someday. Father's mind had patches of damp, rotten vileness all over it.

I figured maybe I'd start by making friends with some other tribes first and gradually work my way back around to the NightWings, but you're hardly a NightWing at all, so that's OK, then." Moon winced. "Hardly a NightWing at all" was essentially what she'd been hearing in the NightWings' thoughts about her for months. It was a little brutal to hear someone just say it out loud.

Sundew did not dignify that with an answer, since she was pretty sure it would involve more yelling at him, and apparently she didn't really enjoy yelling at Blue. (Yelling at Swordtail, on the other hand, was always satisfying.)

Greetings, Queen of the RainWings!" Starflight said grandly. He swept his wings out and bowed low. "Ooooo," the queen said again. "We have come to you despite great peril, in a time of crisis, to throw ourselves upon your merciful —" "We need your help," Tsunami said.

Because happiness is not where I am . . . it's who I'm with.

Palm reached up to touch the glowing fire opals in her ears. "These? But they were a gift from —" "I know," said her sister. "They're much too expensive for you to afford on your

Then I think I turn your nose into a sausage and escape back into the sea.