Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

Some kind of insect was desperately announcing the end of the world in a shrill whine from the top of their tree. If Glory had been able to see it, she would have eaten it in a heartbeat, just to shut it up.

Are you hunting a qilin or trekking to the North Pole?" "It's cold out there," Matthew said.

Moon!" he sang happily as he saw her approaching. "Moon moon moon mooooon pies.

I'd rather have pie," Kinkajou said.

then make a CHART of which ones are the squishiest and which ones go "CLANG OUCH GROWL" and then eat you.

They had reached the Summer Palace of the SeaWings, in the heart of the Kingdom of the Sea.

No one's better at stopping assassins than the world's best assassin.

But you can't kill Darkstalker,

Just fly away. Hide. Try to get back to the rainforest.

you a pie!" Peacemaker chirped, smashing a pile of mud over Hope's talons. "Yum yum yum yum,

Wait," Deathbringer said. "Just — remember that you're your own dragon. You don't have to do what you're told. You can at least ask questions.

Daffodil says it's weird that he has a big shiny treasure but I never get to see it. Daffodil says maybe it doesn't exist at all or maybe he lost it or something. Daffodil says I should hold my breath until you let me see it, but I practiced and it gave me a super big headache so I'mma not do that." "Daffodil has so many helpful thoughts," her mother observed.

sisters, meanwhile, taught him that you should really not tell your sisters who you have a crush on, unless you want the entire palace to know about it.

she is queen, so they can come through and help the NightWings fight the RainWings, if need be. The RainWings were in awful danger. This wasn't a matter of a few dragons disappearing here or there. Glory was right, and Queen Magnificent was wrong. They have to fight back, or soon they'll all be dead. And I'm the only one who knows. But he was just Starflight, the weakest, most cowardly dragon ever chosen for a prophecy. How

Clay blinked and rubbed his talons against his eyes,

She'll be all right, Darkstalker thought. A thousand futures dropped away before him as he made his first choice. Futures where his sister joined his quest for power; futures where she fought him and stopped him; futures where they were best friends; futures where one of them killed the other, or vice versa. As Darkstalker folded his talons together, choosing to keep them still for tonight, every possible future with a thrice-moonborn sister disappeared.

His mother taught him how to keep watch and how to fight and how to defend his queen at all costs. His father taught him how to make camel shish kebab and date soufflé.

Burn and Blister,

Wait," Deathbringer said. "Just — remember that you're your own dragon. You don't have to do what you're told. You can at least ask questions." "So I can end up like you?" Flame snapped. "Behind bars, soon to be dumped into a pit of lava? That does sound like great advice.

could tell you leads to futures that end badly, for you and for me. For instance, I can see clearly that if I tell you right now who has been speaking with the fallen SkyWing queen, you will seek out that dragon, and you will end up dead. Which would be unfortunate, both because I quite like you, and because then I might have to wait another thousand years to be rescued.

Six hundred and NINE! Six hundred and FORTY-TWO!

from the grassland and reached for the sky like towering, dragon-made echoes of the trees that used to dominate the land.

A dragon whose whole life would be about producing flamesilk for HiveWings and nothing else. Maybe

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery. He'd always worked hard to prove