Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

She wasn't a great mother, but she was still her mother. "If we run away," Foeslayer said, "your mother will kill mine, and the other two NightWings as well. She'll think I convinced you to run off with me and she'll blame them.

he should leave us alone," Zoe said, "and then we won't really need nose plugs." "Famous last words," Logan said.

She was white with a scattering of gray-blue scales that looked like rippling shadows across her wings, and she moved like a confident predator.

Maybe the lost continent.

I'm coming for my friend.

Arctic snatched the last bright green drink from a passing tray and stared into it gloomily.

Oooo, the perfect title for my memoir," she said, grinning. "Right about Almost Everything, by Cricket.

They all turned and found a NightWing dragonet standing there, staring at Turtle, with his face contorted in terror.

That's Morrowseer — not exactly a "good morning, how are you, nice grim sulfur-smelling weather we're having" kind of dragon.

A dragon who understands me, finally. A dragon as deep and dark as I am, who sees my anger and wants to be nearer to it instead of freezing it away.

The brighter the moons were, the more wide-awake Deathbringer felt.

Description: thick, armored brown scales, sometimes with amber and gold underscales; large, flat heads with nostrils on top of the snout Abilities: can breathe fire (if warm enough), hold their breath for up to an hour, blend into large mud puddles; usually very strong Queen: Queen Moorhen Alliances: currently allied with Burn and the SkyWings in the great war

but I kind of want to give you a hug right now.

This is ssssssssssssssssssoooooooo interesting, isn't it?" Snowfall strutted

oppressively hot in a sweltering, we're-being-boiled-alive-in-our-

This was not far-fetched freaking out! This was completely reasonable, justified freaking out!

hold their breath for up to an hour,

For a palace surrounded by water, it was surprising how much caught on fire so quickly.

Read this scroll, sweep this cave, catch that exact fish, kill that misbehaving prisoner — whatever it was, he did it, no questions asked. (Well. He'd wanted to ask questions about the prisoner. Such as: Why did anyone bring a mud dragon to the secret night dragon home in the first place?

But we'll get to the bottom of it," Tsunami promised. "We'll find the dragon who set that bomb, and then I will tear off his wings and hang him from the eastern peak of Jade Mountain

Ice-blue diamonds cascaded from her ears and around her neck and all along her tail band, but none of them glittered as sharply or as dangerously as her eyes.

even cuter in real life. Oooo, look at his heroic limp. Oooo, I think he looked at me!

DARKSTALKER KNOWS ABOUT ME. TRAPPED IN THE NIGHTWING PALACE. HELP!

I see you going to the giving-up place in your head. Get yourself out of there right now. We do not know he's dead any more than we did an hour ago. What we have to do is keep searching, because he's only definitely dead if we give up and sit here like moping camels. You are not allowed to mourn until you see a dead body, do you understand me?