Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

Shut UP, Queen Ruby; go AWAY, Queen Glory; deal with your OWN STUPID DRAGONS, Queen Thorn!)

There was a brief, terrifying moment as his midsection got stuck. Would he drown down here? Would the prophecy be ruined because of an extra cow?

Listen," Cricket said reasonably. "If Queen Wasp could control me, would I be on a Wanted poster? Wouldn't she just march me into her Hive from inside my brain? And use me to catch these two?" Morpho opened and closed his mouth a few times. "Oh, wow," Cinnabar said. "You actually shut Morpho up for a moment. You can definitely be in my Chrysalis.

She would have pointed out that Sundew had a duty to marry Mandrake and raise superpowered danger-babies to destroy their enemies.

necklace or a rock or a piece of cheese.

Darkstalker spread his wings and paused. He leaned over to Vulture, tapped his head, and whispered something. Qibli's grandfather vanished again, as suddenly as he'd appeared.

It doesn't work to throw tribes together and just hope they'll get along, because they won't — they can't. Dragons don't work that way, no matter what tribe they're from.

I can think of is I distract him and you try

Pike, Icicle, Flame, Onyx … if it wasn't one of them, who could it be?

and a small glass vial with an emerald-green liquid inside.

My name is Deathbringer.

This dragon could change everything.

Or was your mission to poison the queen?

Nothing is all right, nothing, she caught from Sora's brain. There were fragments of terror and memories of battles and fire jolting through the mud pool in Sora's mind, and she could tell Sora really would have preferred to be tranquilized again, but she'd forced herself to come down here. Icicle,

Don't we lose something when everything is done for us?

She lifted her head, breathing in the wild sea air. This was where she was supposed to be. This was her ocean.

What?" he roared.

Clay! clamored several voices at once in Moon's head. It's him, it's really him! Oooo, he's even cuter in real life. Oooo, look at his heroic limp. Oooo, I think he looked at me!

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 whoever it was … was planning a murder.

She thought about that for a moment. He liked the way she stopped and thought carefully about the things he said. Most dragons already had their ideas settled in their heads; if they paused to think before responding, it was only about how to explain to you that you were wrong. But Cricket seemed to take in information and questions and hold them up against the things she thought she knew, to see if there was anything new she missed.

Mightyclaws is working on it now," Hope answered. She nodded at the dragonet crouched over a flat rock in the pavilion, drawing intently on a square piece of paper. Queen Glory sat beside him, her scales all gold and dark purple, watching quietly over his shoulder. Behind her, Deathbringer was eyeing the forest fiercely. Most NightWings had accepted earrings to free themselves from all of Darkstalker's spells, even the ones that gave them extra powers.

I know exactly who to kill. A freezing shiver rattled down Moon's spine. Sora.

Tsunami was a fireball that blazed up and down and sideways at everything that made her mad (which was most things).