Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

The NightWings are still dangerous. We can't take away their talons or teeth or fire. But one less weapon in a NightWing's claws can't hurt.

Do you trust YOUR talons do you trust them do you?

ability to come up with witty rejoinders whenever someone insulted her.

Three silver eyes in the sky, huge and perfectly round, with darkness all around them. It felt as if they were sinking into his chest, melting into his eyes. He wanted to scoop them into his talons and swallow them whole. He was in a carved stone nest lined with black fur, at the peak of a sharp promontory. Another egg sat quietly in the nest, nearly camouflaged against the fur and the shadows.

The Missing Princess

Yowch," said Glory Wings of Fire The Dragonet Prophecy

How am I going to last even a month without stabbing my claws through his superior eyeballs?

It's NOT terrible," he shouted. "I AM Undauntable! What's your so-great name, then?

Hardly a NightWing at all

I was only half a dragon before I met you, and I would be even less if I lost you now.

Maybe they have wonderful desert animals for sale!" Wren laughed.

All I can ask is that you try your best — and I know I don't even have to ask, because you're the kind of dragon who always does.

Please don't come back with a pet camel," she said. "And don't make friends with any scorpions! Also snakes; snakes are bad, try to remember that.

Queen Glacier is dead,

you're a handsome idiot," she said affectionately. "And I'll tell you later.

Turn your eyes, your wings, your fire To the land across the sea Where dragons are poisoned and dragons are dying And no one can ever be free.

staring at the rankings as if they could reshape them with the sheer force of their eyeballs.

DO NOT ENTER, BY ORDER OF QUEEN WASP. PROPERTY OF THE QUEEN. TRESPASSING PUNISHABLE BY MAIMING, DISMEMBERMENT, IMPALING, AND DEATH, IN THAT ORDER.

Open your hearts, your minds, your wings To the dragons who flee from the Hive. Face a great evil with talons united or none of the tribes will survive.

About two thousand years ago

You were attacked by an albatross?" Clearsight said skeptically. "With … tentacles?

Pike hissed at the NightWing. "You'll pay for this, Bigtail," he snarled. "Nobody disrespects the SeaWing princess.

If you are flying directly into a hurricane, it is probably useful to be a dragon who can see the future. Then again, if you are a dragon who can see the future, you are most likely far too smart to fly directly into a hurricane.

Pyrite was gone. Standing in her place … was Hailstorm.