Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

and among the talons he was sure he felt Sunny's. He felt the warmth of her scales that he'd know anywhere, even with his eyes closed (or … blind?), and he felt her press close to him for a moment and whisper … But why did it sound like Fatespeaker's voice …? "Starflight. You were so brave.

Inside there would be other dragons, infinitely more boring dragons, not to mention his mother, and probably a new set of rules about appeasing Snowflake, staying away from NightWings, and generally acting more like an obedient puddle.

If so, it was bad, it was very, very bad that a part of him was tempted not to stop them.

That's true, because I would have ripped off your tail and beaten you with it first," Winter said. "Nice," Qibli said from the shore. "Not the face this time. Very creative.

Our choices are what make us good or evil – what we do, how we help or hurt the world. You make the world a better place by being in it. With or without magic, that's always been true.

the dragon in the shadows whispered, and then he seemed to melt away, and when Six-Claws blinked, there was no one there at all.

Darkstalker spread his wings, looking deeply injured. His rage vanished as quickly as it had appeared. "It was not animus-touched. I didn't do anything to it at all. I just thought it was beautiful and that Fathom would like it. You have an overly suspicious mind, Violet." "Indigo," Fathom corrected him automatically, dazed.

Darkstalker will know it, and we've

stop Darkstalker! And rescue Turtle!

Hawker is going to kill me, Blue thought deliriously. When I get to the checkpoint, he's going to make that very stern frowny face and tut-tut and check his list and grumble about paperwork and then stab me with his spear thingy.

No human has ever killed a dragon," his mother pointed out. "It's not possible. You might as well walk into their cave and offer to be their lunch.

His fingers tightened mercilessly on Undauntable's arm, cutting off the circulation so Undauntable's hand felt numb. "An old woman," Undauntable blurted. "I met her once in the market a long time ago. She had a small bag full of the scales, so I bought them all, because I didn't want anyone else to have them. I've just been adding them to my jewels one a time for — for effect because you said st-style was partly about t-timing and —

Do you see a hundred other options somewhere?" he barked.

She wished she could be out in the sunshine with a book and a kitten

I have to get out of here," Tsunami said. Before I tie your stupid tail around your stupid snout and leave you in a bundle at the bottom of the lake.

They just … give me the heebie-jeebies, that's all. With their … eyes and paws and … faces.

Undauntable," his father said in his icy voice. The room was empty now except for the two of them. "That man described a dragon whose scales seem to match the ones you wear. I think it's time you told me where you've been getting them.

Qibli suspected he could spend hours tracking the emotions on Peril's face and never get bored.)

Slow, despicable humans. Perhaps I will rip off their toes.

Tick tick tick tick flip flip flip flip. Her brain never stopped. She was constantly running scenarios, tracing paths forward into different futures. Darkstalker had thought he was pretty good at this himself — he could see not just the most plausible future, but a few alternates where things were different. But she had thousands of strands gathered in her mind, weaving and interweaving and knotting and tangling. He regretted promising to stay out; it was fascinating in there.

Moon recognized one of them as Sora. The MudWing was doing some kind of breathing ritual where she imagined mud pouring over all her fears, burying them, so all Moon could see was ripples. Another dragonet was reading, but couldn't concentrate on the words; he kept thinking, Everyone will know I don't belong here.

can tell you what to do. That's my job and my favorite thing in life, I mean, seriously.

No, no." Boar raised his hands. "That's not the interesting part of the story, milord. The interesting part is that the Dragonslayer confessed his lies because a dragon showed up in Valor and demanded the treasure back.

Why make her feel so useless — if we're all useless? Because it is real. It has to be. But how can I prove it?