Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

Her smile made him feel as if lightning were crackling under his scales.

raining for five days. Glory officially hated it. She also was not enjoying the comments from the other dragonets about how, "as a RainWing," she

Blue couldn't imagine that was true. Blue cared about all of them: every dragon he'd ever spoken to and all the ones he'd never seen. There were dragons out there eating blueberries and dragons laughing at clumsy tiger cubs and dragons learning to dance and dragons crying as though their hearts would break over missing homework. He'd been all of them in some way, and he couldn't just toss them into the talons of these angry, vengeful dragons and fly off.

Mshish vemmy shmewy," Clay mumbled

be like seeing ghosts or scavengers

Winter's burns were sending fiery bolts of pain along all the nerves in his body, but he staggered forward to help Qibli.

There was a SkyWing!" Winter snarled. "It attacked me and stole my prey and then disapp — oh, SEAL GUTS!

other side of the pavilion, he hissed, "Your Majesty, I think there's one of them right behind me." The dragon next to him looked around in alarm, spotted Winter, and leaped backward, nearly knocking one of her companions off the platform. "Oh my gosh, is that what they look like?" she cried. "Why's it pointy all over?" "Look at its tail!" yelped another. "It really is all spiky!" "And can you feel how cold it is?

I WON'T get upset!" Cliff shouted. "I want! to SEE! MOMMY KILL GRANDMA!" Peril had to stifle a giggle. "All right, you bloodthirsty little barbarian

I know you're lying but I can't say you are because you're the queen but maybe you should just admit it because my eyebrows are so onto you.

Yeah!" Blue said. "We should feed her to a pyrosalamander!

General Sandstorm is already dead!

Yes, Sunny," said Thorn, her voice falling like drops of water into the stillness between them. "It's because you're half NightWing.

He can't tell him about me, though," said Turtle. "Or if he does, Darkstalker won't hear it. My enchantment hides me completely from him." I hope. I hope I hope I hope. If I did it right. Which seems unlikely, knowing me. Ack. "That's clever," said Qibli. "How did you think of that?" "I used this brainstorming method called pure terror," Turtle admitted. "It wasn't so much clever as deeply cowardly.

One of the eggs was still intact, but the other was smashed. The little blue dragonet inside had been strangled to death. Her neck was twisted in a horrible way, and her head flopped sadly as Queen Coral gently picked her up.

she spotted SeaWings sitting next to MudWings; IceWings beside SkyWings; SandWings and NightWings and RainWings barely a few claws from one another. That's what I really want,

Nnnmph vmmy nnnmph,

I could fix them. I could do it right now … I could enchant that bandage so when she takes it off, she could see for the first time in her life.

his scales were hot enough to fry snake eggs on.

Qibli to see the heartbreaking look that swept across her face. She glanced down at her talons and

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

scrolls. And then we'll figure out for ourselves if we're going

YOUUUSHH HA HAA SO SHH,

We'll probably end up married one day," Qibli said. The only reply Winter made to this was a snort so vigorous he nearly knocked himself over.