Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

A gust of wind lifted a spray of sand and danced it across the dunes.

Father's eyes, like fragments of ice, studied Darkstalker's every scale, and Darkstalker could feel the cold, congealing weight of Father's resentment. "He looks every inch a NightWing," Father growled. "Not a shred of me in him at all." Suspicion,

He was the idiot who fell over his claws in the first chapter, had to be rescued in the fourth, nearly ruined the whole plan in the ninth, and ran away at the end, or died, if he was really extra stupid.

Maybe there would be no queen on the throne beside him.

Blue IceWing blood everywhere.

Well, I sort of do, now that we have Blue.

Snowfall?" Lynx said after a moment. "Are you — did I break you?" She reached out and tapped lightly on Snowfall's forehead.

it drifted off in his sleep one night, and he often wondered if there was a startled sea horse tangled up in it somewhere out there, speeding along the ocean floor.

than Anemone's sparkle extravaganza.

urrrgggh, whyyyyy, narwhals are heaaaaavy and I'm reeeeeeeading,' and you'd say, 'but I want one! right now!' and I'd say, 'then go GET one, bossytail,' and you'd bellow, 'I AM YOUR QUEEN!' and I'd be like, 'yes, but this book is at a really exciting part though,' and theeeeen you'd probably have me executed.

As if sloths were parading out of her ears.

I hatched on an island of smoke and fire, under a volcano that breathed death all day and hid the stars and the three moons at night.

I AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO,

Another dragon tried to take to the air to see the storm, but the wind immediately caught him and whirled him away into the clouds, screaming. Qibli stared after him, stricken with horror.

It's just another party," Clearsight said, laughing. "The queen seems to have one every other night. There's a full moon, let's celebrate! A second full moon, celebrate again! Her oldest son's hatching day, time for a party! One of her daughters sneezed, someone alert the chefs we need a cake! It's kind of exhausting.

Sure enough, a few moments later, an enormous blue-green SeaWing emerged from the water, shaking her wings vigorously. She was powerfully built, as big as Morrowseer, with broad shoulders and gleaming teeth and a healing burn scar on her neck, and she had a trident longer than Deathbringer strapped to her back. Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I'm supposed to kill THAT?

HELLO!" the second dragon shouted down the chasm, making Blue jump. "HELLOOOOOOO, ANNOYING WINGLESS DRAAAAAAGON. ARE YOU DEAD AT THE BOTTOM OF THESE ROCKS? OR ALMOST DEAD? COULD YOU CROAK 'YEAH, I'M HERE, TOTALLY DEAD, CARRY ON' SO WE CAN ALL GO HOME AND SAY WE FOUND YOU?

I'm awake," Clay muttered. He buried his head under his talons. "I'm just waiting until Glory and Tsunami stop fighting. I was dreaming about sheep and buffalo and bears. They were all on the table in front of me and I had to decide which to eat first. Oh, and they all smelled like melons. That part was kind of weird.

Hmmm,' she said. 'How long do you think it'll last?' 'How would I know?!

Yes!" Kinkajou said. "I didn't know we did, but now I totally do!

Most of them were ruining the effect by peering at the spears with mystified expressions, or holding them upside down.

I thought you brought me here on our first trip

Winter glanced over at Cirrus again and found him glaring at Moon and Kinkajou with an expression of searing hatred, so intense that Winter wanted to run across the clearing and fling up his wings to shield Moon from it. Cirrus had left the IceWings, but his loathing of NightWings clearly still ran deep.

Tsunami whirled to glare at Starflight, her gills pulsing. "Say that to my face." "I am saying it to your face," he said. "Or was I saying it to your rear end? It's easy to get the two confused." He ducked behind Clay before Tsunami could even bare her teeth at him. "Hey, stop. Quit snarling at each other like mini Kestrels,